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  Hospital Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Planning Tool / Calculator

  Tags Coronavirus, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, MERS-CoV, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, SARS, Special Pathogens, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: ASPR TRACIE
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2018
  Description: Purpose: The Hospital Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Planning Tool is designed to help hospitals determine approximate minimum PPE needs based on special pathogen category and a number of facility specific variables. Calculators are included for…

• Ebola and Beyond: Legal Preparedness for Outbreaks

  Tags Ebola, Legal, Outbreaks, Public Health, R-EM, Special Pathogens
  Creator: National Governors Association (NGA)
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Webinar
  Date Last Updated: 2019-11-26
  Description: The third webinar in the four-part series on Legal Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies, this was hosted in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Bar Association.
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  Biopreparedness: Identify, Isolate, Inform Resources & References

  Tags Ebola, Frontline Facilities Tools, Frontline Facility, Identify, Inform, Internal Transport, Isolate, R-IIT, R-Lead, Special Pathogens, Treatment and Care
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2019-09-27
  Description: Frontline Facilities resource list
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  Acronyms/Abbreviations

  Tags Frontline Facilities Tools, R-Lead, Special Pathogens
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2019
  Description: An updated list of acronyms and abbreviations used throughout this site and relevant resources
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  NYC Health + Hospitals Special Pathogens Response Matrix

  Tags Coronavirus, Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), Ebola, Flu, Influenza, Lassa, Marburg, MERS-CoV, Mpox, Plague, Protocol, R-EM, SARS, Special Pathogens, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: NYC Health + Hospitals
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2023-12-15
  Description: Matrix with response to different special pathogens.
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  Peripheral IV Insertion in Patients Infected with Ebola or Other Special Pathogen

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Just in Time training (JIT), R-T&C, Skills Video, Special Pathogens
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2019-10-11
  Description: In this video, we will identify the special considerations needed for inserting and removing a peripheral IV (PIV) from a patient confirmed or suspected to have Ebola or other special pathogen. PIV catheter insertion.

• Common Behaviors and Faults When Doffing Personal Protective Equipment for Patients With Serious Communicable Diseases

  Tags Donning and Doffing, Gloves, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PM, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Special Pathogens
  Creator: C. D. C. Prevention Epicenters Program (CDC)
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-10-01
  Description: The safe removal of personal protective equipment (PPE) can limit transmission of serious communicable diseases, but this process poses challenges to healthcare workers (HCWs).

• 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).

• U.S. Medical Examiner/Coroner capability to handle highly infectious decedents.

  Tags Decedent Management, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-DM, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Le, Aurora B., Erin G. Brooks, Lily A. McNulty, James R. Gill, Jocelyn J. Herstein, Janelle Rios, Scott J. Patlovich, Katelyn C. Jelden, Kendra K. Schmid, John J. Lowe, and Shawn G. Gibbs.
  Subject: Decedent Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-11-06
  Description: In the United States of America, Medical Examiners and Coroners (ME/Cs) investigate approximately 20% of all deaths. Unexpected deaths, such as those occurring due to a deceased person under investigation for a highly infectious disease, are likely…

• 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.