Browse Items (26 total)

• Clinical challenges in isolation care.

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Critical Care, Infection Prevention and Control, Nursing, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Beam, E., S. G. Gibbs, A. L. Hewlett, P. C. Iwen, S. L. Nuss and P. W. Smith
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-04-01
  Description: In 2014, the authors published the results of a study investigating nurses' use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the care of a live simulated patient requiring contact and airborne precautions. 

• Ebola surgical protocols enhance safety of patients and personnel

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Occupational Health, Patient Care, Patient Transport, R-IPC, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Surgery
  Creator: Mathias, J. M.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-04-30
  Description: In the months since Ebola patients were first treated in US hospitals, much progress has been made in establishing protocols to protect patients and healthcare workers from harm.

• Emergency Department Processes for the Evaluation and Management of Persons Under Investigation for Ebola Virus Disease

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Diagnosis, Ebola, Emergency Department, Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Inform, Isolate, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-IIT, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Travel Screening, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Wadman, M. C., S. S. Schwedhelm, S. Watson, J. Swanhorst, S. G. Gibbs, J. J. Lowe, P. C. Iwen, A. K. Hayes, S. Needham, D. W. Johnson, D. J. Kalin, W. G. Zeger and R. L. Muelleman
  Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-09-01
  Description: Due to the recent Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, patients with epidemiologic risk for Ebola virus disease and symptoms consistent with Ebola virus disease are presenting to emergency departments (EDs) and clinics in the United States.

• Lessons learned: critical care management of patients with Ebola in the United States

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Critical Care, Ebola, Example, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Phlebotomy, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Johnson, D. W., J. N. Sullivan, C. A. Piquette, A. L. Hewlett, K. L. Bailey, P. W. Smith, A. C. Kalil and S. J. Lisco
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-06-01
  Description: This report will describe the preparations for and the provision of care of two patients with Ebola virus disease in the biocontainment unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

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  Successful delivery of RRT in Ebola virus disease.

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Complications, Ebola, Example, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Connor, M. J., Jr., C. Kraft, A. K. Mehta, J. B. Varkey, G. M. Lyon, I. Crozier, U. Stroher, B. S. Ribner and H. A. Franch
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-01-01
  Description: AKI has been observed in cases of Ebola virus disease. 

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• Radiographic imaging for patients with contagious infectious diseases: how to acquire chest radiographs of patients infected with the Ebola virus

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Auffermann, W. F., C. S. Kraft, S. Vanairsdale, G. M. Lyon, 3rd and S. Tridandapani
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-01-01
  Description: Contagious infectious diseases add a new dimension to radiology and pose many unanswered questions.