Browse Items (56 total)

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  Bio Isolation Transfer Card (BIT) - Emory Example

  Tags Biosafety, EMS, Internal Transport, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-IIT, Waste Management
  Creator: Emory
  Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
  Item Type: Checklist
  Date Last Updated: 2019-10-31
  Description: Emory University Hospital (EUH), Serious Communicable Diseases Unit (SCDU), Bio Isolation Transfer Card (BIT),
  EMS Transport to EUH SCDU
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  NETEC In Room Log Sheet

  Tags Frontline Facilities Tools, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, NSPS 1, NSPS 2, NSPS 3, NSPS 4, Personnel Management, R-IPC, R-PM, Staffing
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2019-09
  Description: In Room Log Sheet for Isolation rooms: Staff members entering the isolation room will sign in and out. All possible breaches should also be documented.

• Effect of an Intervention Package and Teamwork Training to Prevent Healthcare Personnel Self-contamination During Personal Protective Equipment Doffing

  Tags Airborne Transmission, Donning and Doffing, Ebola, Isolation/Biocontainment, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PM, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Staff Support, Staffing, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: C. D. C. Prevention Epicenters Program (CDC)
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-10-01
  Description: More than 28 000 people were infected with Ebola virus during the 2014–2015 West African outbreak, resulting in more than 11 000 deaths. Better methods are needed to reduce the risk of self-contamination while doffing personal protective equipment…

• Review of Literature for Air Medical Evacuation High-Level Containment Transport.

  Tags Air Transport, Ebola, EMS, Epidemic, High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID), Isolation/Biocontainment, R-EMS, R-PreH, R-Res&Pub, Research, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Gibbs, Shawn G., Jocelyn J. Herstein, Aurora B. Le, Elizabeth L. Beam, Theodore J. Cieslak, James V. Lawler, Joshua L. Santarpia, Terry L. Stentz, Kelli R. Kopocis-Herstein, Chandran Achutan, Gary W. Carter, and John J. Lowe.
  Subject: Pre-Hospital
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-10
  Description: Aeromedical evacuation (AE) is a challenging process, further complicated when a patient has a highly hazardous communicable disease (HHCD).
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  Design Strategies for Biocontainment Units to Reduce Risk During Doffing of High-level Personal Protective Equipment.

  Tags Biosafety, Donning and Doffing, Ebola, Isolation/Biocontainment, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Physical Infrastructure, R-PhIn
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: Physical Infrastructure
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-09-13
  Description: Few data exist to guide the physical design of biocontainment units, particularly the doffing area.

• Need for Aeromedical Evacuation High-Level Containment Transport Guidelines.

  Tags Ebola, EMS, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Patient Transport, Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-PreH, R-Res&Pub, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Gibbs, Shawn G., Jocelyn J. Herstein, Aurora B. Le, Elizabeth L. Beam, Theodore J. Cieslak, James V. Lawler, Joshua L. Santarpia, Terry L. Stentz, Kelli R. Kopocis-Herstein, Chandran Achutan, Gary W. Carter, and John J. Lowe.
  Subject: Pre-Hospital
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-05
  Description: Circumstances exist that call for the aeromedical evacuation high-level containment transport (AE-HLCT) of patients with highly hazardous communicable diseases.

• Ebola Virus Disease: Clinical Challenges, Recognition, and Management.

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Ebola, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Special Pathogens, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Beam, Elizabeth L., Michelle M. Schwedhelm, Kathleen C. Boulter, Angela M. Vasa, LuAnn Larson, Theodore J. Cieslak, John J. Lowe, Jocelyn J. Herstein, Christopher J. Kratochvil, and Angela L. Hewlett.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-03-26
  Description: The 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak response resulted in many lessons learned about biocontainment patient care, leading to enhanced domestic capabilities for highly infectious and hazardous communicable diseases. Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All…

• Designing a biocontainment unit to care for patients with serious communicable diseases: a consensus statement

  Tags Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, NSPS 1, NSPS 2, R-PhIn, R-Res&Pub, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Smith, P. W., A. O. Anderson, G. W. Christopher, T. J. Cieslak, G. J. Devreede, G. A. Fosdick, C. B. Greiner, J. M. Hauser, S. H. Hinrichs, K. D. Huebner, P. C. Iwen, D. R. Jourdan, M. G. Kortepeter, V. P. Landon, P. A. Lenaghan, R. E. Leopold, L. A.…
  Subject: Physical Infrastructure
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2006-12-18
  Description: In spite of great advances in medicine, serious communicable diseases are a significant threat. Hospitals must be prepared to deal with patients who are infected with pathogens introduced by a bioterrorist act (e.g., smallpox), by a global emerging…

• Clinical Management of Patients with Ebola: The Nebraska Experience

  Tags Ebola, Isolation/Biocontainment, Patient Care, R-T&C
  Creator: University of Wisconsin (UW)
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2019-04-19
  Description: In this lecture Angela Hewlett, MD, MS presents a case study about caring for patients with Ebola Virus Disease at Nebraska Medical Center in 2014. Dr. Hewlett is an infectious disease specialist and associate medical director of the Nebraska…

• Ebola Virus Disease: Insights from a Unique Patient and Ecological Analyses

  Tags Ebola, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Laboratory Testing, Outcomes, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2019-05-29
  Description: CC Grand Rounds: Clinicopathologic Grand Rounds: Clinical Cases from the NIH: Clinical Center Ebola Virus: An Update on Ecology and Molecular Correlates of Critical Illness. This lecture by Vincent Munster and Daniel S. Chertow presents a case study…