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Creator: JEMS Webcast, Alexander Isakov, Michael J. Carr, Ben Tysor, and Wade Miles
Subject: Pre-hospital
Item Type: Webinar
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-07
Description: This webcast aims to increase awareness about standard and transmission-based infection-control practices and teaches learners how the “Identify, Isolates and Inform” strategy can improve their ability to recognize and manage an infectious disease… -
Creator: CDC, Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Department of Transportation
Subject: Pre-hospital
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2016-01-26
Description: Guidance that includes Patient Handoff SOP, Air-to-Ground Patient Handoff SOP, and Ambulance Decontamination -
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). -
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. -
Creator: Coignard-Biehler, H., A. Isakov, and J. Stephenson
Subject: Pre-hospital
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015-08
Description: Although the epidemic is largely confined to West Africa, most Western countries where there is a possible risk of imported EVD have developed guidelines and procedures for the transport of confirmed or suspected cases of EVD. Specific… -
Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine / Heroes
Subject: Pre-Hospital
Item Type: Video
Date Last Updated: 2017-11-27
Description: An ISOPOD is a device used in the transportation of a potentially infectious patient, either internally at a facility, or from one facility to another. In this video Brittany Nordby, RN, BSN, EMT, Project Coordinator for HEROES, provides an… -
Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine
Subject: Pre-Hospital
Item Type: Protocol
Date Last Updated: 2018-07-01
Description: Policies and Procedures Manual: Instructions on how to set-up the Isopod to allow for the safe transportation of a patient with a highly hazardous communicable disease. -
Creator: Lowe, J. J., K. C. Jelden, P. J. Schenarts, L. E. Rupp, K. J. Hawes, B. M. Tysor, R. G. Swansiger, S. S. Schwedhelm, P. W. Smith and S. G. Gibbs
Subject: Pre-Hospital
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015-06-01
Description: The Nebraska Biocontainment Unit through the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, recently received patients with confirmed Ebola virus from West Africa. -
Creator: Isakov, A., W. Miles, S. Gibbs, J. Lowe, A. Jamison and R. Swansiger
Subject: Pre-Hospital
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015-09-01
Description: The foundation of safe care for patients with confirmed or suspected Ebola virus disease is effective infection control practice, which requires implementation of appropriate administrative policies, work practices, and environmental controls,… -
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.