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Creator: NETEC
Subject: Emergency Medical Services
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2024-02-05
Description: PURPOSE: This Model Guidance outlines the procedure for managing a biohazard spill – gross contamination with blood, vomit, or diarrhea.SCOPE: This Model Guidance applies to all EMS personnel involved in the transport and management of a patient… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Emergency Medical Services
Item Type: Online Course
Date Last Updated: 2022-12-22
Description: This interactive module covers EMS Biosafety Transport relating to viral hemorrhagic fevers and specifically Ebola virus disease. -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Video
Date Last Updated: 2022-09-20
Description: This skills video will discuss safety tips when working with a special pathogen of concern within a biological safety cabinet, or BSC. NETEC Mission: To increase the capability of United States public health and health care systems to safely and… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2022-08-25
Description: The purpose of this document is to provide a general reference guide for safe donning and doffing spaces. Zones of contamination help guide healthcare personnel (HCP) risk assessment and risk reduction measures while working in and moving through… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2020-12-12
Description: This printable flyer infographic discusses Long-Term Care (LTC) and Assisted Living Facility Biosafety: Identify, Isolate and Inform. -
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… -
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… -
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. -
Creator: Lowe, J. J., A. L. Hewlett, P. C. Iwen, P. W. Smith and S. G. Gibbs
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015-05-08
Description: The ability to decontaminate a room potentially containing the Ebola virus is important to healthcare facilities in the United States. -
Creator: Lane, M. A., E. A. Brownsword, A. Babiker, J. M. Ingersoll, J. Waggoner, M. Ayers, M. Klopman, T. M. Uyeki, W. G. Lindsley, and C. S. Kraft.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2021-01-28
Description: Background: Previous research has shown that rooms of patients with COVID-19 present the potential for healthcare-associated transmission through aerosols containing SARS-CoV-2. However, data on the presence of these aerosols outside of patient rooms…