Browse Items (72 total)

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  Facilitator Guide: Pediatric Room

  Tags Leadership Toolbox, Other Tools, Patient Care, Pediatrics, R-SP, Training
  Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Exercise
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-25
  Description: Leadership Toolbox, More Tools: Pediatric Room
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  Critical Care for the Patient with Ebola Virus Disease (EBV): The Nebraska Perspective

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Vasa, A., M. Schwedhelm and D. Johnson
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-11-26
  Description: Care for patients with Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and other highly infectious diseases is demanding and requires an unwavering commitment to teamwork and stringent infection control measures.
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  Preparing for Serious Communicable Diseases in the United States: What the Ebola Virus Epidemic Has Taught Us

  Tags Antibodies, Contact Transmission, Critical Care, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Epidemic, Infection Prevention and Control, Outbreaks, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Prophylaxis, Public Health, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Varkey, J. B. and B. S. Ribner
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-06-01
  Description: Ending the West Africa Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak required an unprecedented international response.

• Clinical management of Ebola virus disease in the United States and Europe

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Critical Care, Ebola, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Uyeki, T. M., A. K. Mehta, R. T. Davey Jr, A. M. Liddell, T. Wolf, P. Vetter, S. Schmiedel, T. Grünewald, M. Jacobs and J. R. Arribas
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-02-18
  Description: Available data on the characteristics of patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD) and clini- cal management of EVD in settings outside West Africa, as well as the complications observed in those patients, are limited.

• Reflections on interprofessional team-based clinical care in the ebola epidemic: The Nebraska Medicine experience

  Tags Ebola, Nursing, Patient Care, R-T&C, Staff Support, Staffing, Staffing Model, Training
  Creator: Schwedhelm, S., E. L. Beam, R. D. Morris and J. G. Sebastian
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-02-01
  Description: Team-based interprofessional care has become the gold standard for comprehensive and efficient health care.

• Building a National Capability to Monitor and Assess Medical Countermeasure Use During a Public Health Emergency: Going Beyond the Last Mile: Proceedings of a Workshop

  Tags Ethics, Federal Research Partners, Informed Consent, Institutional Review Board (IRB), Patient Care, Prophylaxis, Public Health, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study
  Creator: National Academies of Sciences, E. and Medicine
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-10-31
  Description: During public health emergencies (PHEs) involving chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear threats or emerging infectious diseases, medical countermeasures (MCMs) (e.g., drugs, vaccines, devices) may need to be dispensed or administered to…
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  Treatment of Ebola

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Mehta, A. K., G. M. Lyon and J. B. Varkey
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-04-23
  Description: To the Editor: We were struck by the similarity of transient vascular leak in Ebola virus disease (EVD), as reported by Lyon et al. (Dec. 18 issue),1 with that which occurs in dengue....

• Clinical Management of Patients with Ebola Virus Disease in High-Resource Settings

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Staffing, Staffing Model, Therapeutics
  Creator: Marshall Lyon, G., A. K. Mehta and B. S. Ribner
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-06-11
  Description: Like most viral illnesses in humans, supportive care of the patient is the mainstay of clinical care for patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD).
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  Clinical care of two patients with Ebola virus disease in the United States

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Staffing, Staffing Model, Therapeutics
  Creator: Lyon, G. M., A. K. Mehta, J. B. Varkey, K. Brantly, L. Plyler, A. K. McElroy, C. S. Kraft, J. S. Towner, C. Spiropoulou, U. Stroher, T. M. Uyeki, B. S. Ribner and U. Emory Serious Communicable Diseases
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2014-12-18
  Description: West Africa is currently experiencing the largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in history.

• Caring for Patients With Ebola: A Challenge in Any Care FacilityEbola Containment Care

  Tags Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Kortepeter, M. G., P. W. Smith, A. Hewlett and T. J. Cieslak
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-02-06
  Description: The largest outbreak of Ebola virus continues unabated in West Africa. With the recent death of a patient with Ebola virus disease at a hospital in Dallas, Texas, and the sobering reality that nosocomial spread has occurred in a U.S. facility, U.S.…