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NETEC COVID-19 Webinar Series (4/24/20): Laboratory Operations, Challenges, and Innovations for COVID-19

Creator: NETEC
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Webinar
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-24
Description: The landscape of testing, focusing on different testing platforms, prioritization of testing and biosafety implications.Get educational credit for this webinar through Courses.netec.org.

Tags: 2019-nCoV, Biosafety, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Laboratory, Laboratory Testing

Bio Isolation Transfer Card (BIT)

Creator: Emory
Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
Item Type: Checklist
Date Last Updated: 2019-10-31
Description: Emory University Hospital (EUH), Serious Communicable Diseases Unit (SCDU), Bio Isolation Transfer Card (BIT),
EMS Transport to EUH SCDU

Tags: Biosafety, EMS, Internal Transport, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Waste Management

Interim Laboratory Biosafety Guidelines for Handling and Processing Specimens Associated with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – Version 2

Creator: CDC
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2019-08-02
Description: To date, we don’t fully understand the pathogenic potential and transmission dynamics of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV). Until more information becomes available, precautions should be taken in collecting and handling…

Tags: Biosafety, Laboratory, Laboratory Testing, MERS-CoV

Design Strategies for Biocontainment Units to Reduce Risk During Doffing of High-level Personal Protective Equipment.

Creator: CDC
Subject: Physical Infrastructure
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-09-13
Description: Few data exist to guide the physical design of biocontainment units, particularly the doffing area.

Tags: Biosafety, Donning and Doffing, Ebola, Isolation/Biocontainment, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Physical Infrastructure

Biocontainment Units: Moving to the Next Phase of Evolution

Creator: Mark G. Kortepeter and Theodore J. Cieslak
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-02-06
Description: The concept and belief in the idea of “biocontainment” has undergone significant evolution during the past 20 years.

Tags: Biosafety, Research

NETEC - Online Course - Special Pathogens of Concern: Ebola Virus Disease

Creator: NETEC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Online Course
Date Last Updated: 2018-09-10
Description: It is critical that healthcare personnel have knowledge of Ebola and the implications for healthcare delivery in a biocontainment unit (BCU). In this course, learners will be able to describe pathogen-related factors that may warrant treatment in a…

Tags: Biosafety, Ebola, Isolate, Special Pathogens

NETEC - Online Course - Internal Communication

Creator: NETEC
Subject: Personnel Management
Item Type: Online Course
Date Last Updated: 2018-09-18
Description: This course will provide information on communication considerations when a facility is notified they will be receiving a patient with Ebola or other special pathogen. This will include information on communicating with staff, patients already in…

Tags: Biosafety, Communications, CONOPS, Special Pathogens, Staff Support, Staffing Model