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Creator: Isakov, A., A. Jamison, W. Miles and B. Ribner
Subject: Pre-Hospital
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2014-12-02
Description: Health care workers (HCWs) in the emergency medical services (EMS) and hospital settings often encounter patients infected with dangerous communicable diseases. -
Creator: Hewlett, A. L., J. B. Varkey, P. W. Smith and B. S. Ribner
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015-08-01
Description: This review details infection control issues encountered in the management of patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD), with emphasis on how these issues were confronted in two biocontainment patient care units in the United States. -
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. -
Creator: Loftus, Mary (editor), Emory Medicine
Subject: General
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2018-02-20
Description: In the wake of caring for four patients with active Ebola virus in 2014, Emory clinicians have taken stock of lessons learned in infectious disease prevention, therapeutic care, and health aftereffects and are sharing that information broadly with… -
Creator: New York Times
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2017-10-19
Description: Grady, Denise. 2017. "Ebola's Legacy: Children with Cataracts." New York Times [October 19, 2017]. -
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. -
Creator: Ferranti, E. P., L. Wands, K. A. Yeager, B. Baker, M. K. Higgins, J. L. Wold and S. B. Dunbar
Subject: Training and Exercises
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2018-01-08
Description: Implementation of an educational program for nursing students amidst the Ebola virus disease epidemic -
Creator: Vasa, A., P. W. Smith, M. Schwedhelm, T. J. Cieslak, J. Lowe, C. J. Kratochvil, E. L. Beam, K. Boulter and A. Hewlett
Subject: Training and Exercises
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2017-08-01
Description: The Ebola outbreak of 2014-2016 highlighted the need for the development of a more robust healthcare infrastructure in the United States to provide isolation care for patients infected with a highly hazardous contagious disease. -
Creator: Varkey, J. B., J. G. Shantha, I. Crozier, C. S. Kraft, G. M. Lyon, A. K. Mehta, G. Kumar, J. R. Smith, M. H. Kainulainen, S. Whitmer, U. Stroher, T. M. Uyeki, B. S. Ribner and S. Yeh
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015-06-18
Description: Among the survivors of Ebola virus disease (EVD), complications that include uveitis can develop during convalescence, although the incidence and pathogenesis of EVD-associated uveitis are unknown.This article was corrected in volume 372 on page… -
Creator: Smith, M. W., P. W. Smith, C. J. Kratochvil and S. Schwedhelm
Subject: Personnel Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2017-02-01
Description: Caring for highly infectious patients in biocontainment units is a new phenomenon, and little is known about the behavioral health of workers in this setting.Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.