Browse Items (62 total)

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  Predicting the Effects of the COVID Pandemic On US Health System Capacity

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Emergency Management, Epidemic, Pandemic, R-EM
  Creator: Qventus
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-13
  Description: Predicting the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic On US Health System Capacity Qventus works with leading health systems across the country to improve operations and drive more efficient patient flow. Over recent weeks, they have been helping their…

• Can we contain the COVID-19 outbreak with the same measures as for SARS?

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemic, Infection Prevention and Control, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub, SARS, SARS-CoV-2
  Creator: Wilder-Smith, Annelies, Calvin J. Chiew, and Vernon J. Lee.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-05
  Description: The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003 resulted in more than 8000 cases and 800 deaths.

• Initiation of a new infection control system for the COVID-19 outbreak

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemic, Infection Prevention and Control, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Chen, Xuejiao, Junzhang Tian, Guanming Li, and Guowei Li.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-02-18
  Description: In December, 2019, a group of patients with pneumonia of unknown origin, most of whom had been exposed to the Huanan seafood wholesale market in Wuhan, China, was first reported.

• 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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  Pregnant Women and Vaccines Against Emerging Epidemic Threats: Ethics Guidance for Preparedness, Research, and Response

  Tags Epidemic, Ethics, Labor and Delivery, Neonates, Pediatrics, Public Health, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, Research, Treatment and Care, Vaccine Study
  Creator: Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, The Pregnancy Research Ethics for Vaccines, Epidemics, and New Technologies (PREVENT) Project
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-05-03
  Description: PREVENT Guidance This Guidance provides a roadmap for the ethically responsible, socially just, and respectful inclusion of the interests of pregnant women in the development and deployment of vaccines against emerging pathogens. The Guidance is a…
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  Being a Pediatrician in an Ebola Epidemic

  Tags Ebola, Epidemic, Epidemiology, Pediatrics, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, R-T&C, Treatment and Care, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Vijay Aswani
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-01
  Description: Narrative of his work in Sierra Leone in January and February 2015.

• Preliminary results on the efficacy of rVSV-ZEBOV-GP Ebola vaccine using the ring vaccination strategy in the control of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: an example of integration of research into epidemic response.

  Tags Clinical Trial, Ebola, Epidemic, Outbreaks, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Research, Research Design, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-04-12
  Description: ABOUT THIS ANALYSIS: DRC’s national research institute, the Institut National pour la Recherche Biomedicale (INRB) and WHO have conducted a preliminary analysis of the data being collected from the ring vaccination protocol. The analysis summarized…

• Ebola: how to repatriate contaminated health care providers?/Ebola : comment faire pour rapatrier les soignants contaminés ?

  Tags Contact Transmission, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Epidemic, Epidemiology, Français, French, Infection Prevention and Control, Occupational Exposure, Occupational Health, Personnel Management, Quarantine, R-Res&Pub, Staffing, Therapeutics, Travel Screening, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Nau JY.
  Subject: Contenu Français
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2014-11-05
  Description: Les médias français n’en ont pas été informés : début octobre, une infirmière norvégienne, contaminée par le virus Ebola, a été rapatriée par une société française d’assistance médicale depuis Freetown jusqu’à Oslo, via Las Palmas et Le Bourget.

• Community Engagement in Ethics and Ebola

  Tags Communications, Ebola, Epidemic, Ethics, Legal, Outbreaks, Patient Care, Public Health, Quarantine, R-Gen, Research
  Creator: Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2016-07-13
  Description: A learning module for students to discuss, identify, and consider issues related to community engagement in public health emergency planning and response.

• Public Health Emergencies and the Media

  Tags Communications, Ebola, Emergency Management, Epidemic, Outbreaks, Public Health, R-EM
  Creator: Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2016-08-01
  Description: This release discusses how non-scientists can spot the hype in media coverage on public health emergencies.