Browse Items (15 total)

• National Model EMS Clinical Guidelines

  Tags Clinical Care, Clinical Care Guidelines, EMS, Guidance Document, R-EMS
  Creator: NASEMSO Medical Directors Council
  Subject: Emergency Medical Services
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2019-01
  Description: These guidelines will be maintained by NASEMSO to facilitate the creation of state and local EMS system clinical guidelines, protocols or operating procedures. System medical directors and other leaders are invited to harvest content as will be…
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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.
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  Evaluating Promising Investigational Medical Countermeasures: Recommendations in the Absence of Guidelines

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Clinical Trial, Ethics, Infection Prevention and Control, R-T&C, Research, Research Design, Special Pathogens, Therapeutics
  Creator: NETEC SPRN Medical Countermeasures Working Group
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-02-19
  Description: Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases pose growing global public health threats. However, research on and development of medical countermeasures (MCMs) for such pathogens is limited by the sporadic and unpredictable nature of outbreaks, lack…

• Clinical management of Ebola virus disease in the United States and Europe

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Critical Care, Ebola, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Uyeki, T. M., A. K. Mehta, R. T. Davey Jr, A. M. Liddell, T. Wolf, P. Vetter, S. Schmiedel, T. Grünewald, M. Jacobs and J. R. Arribas
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-02-18
  Description: Available data on the characteristics of patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD) and clini- cal management of EVD in settings outside West Africa, as well as the complications observed in those patients, are limited.

• Emergency Department Processes for the Evaluation and Management of Persons Under Investigation for Ebola Virus Disease

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Diagnosis, Ebola, Emergency Department, Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Inform, Isolate, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-IIT, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Travel Screening, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Wadman, M. C., S. S. Schwedhelm, S. Watson, J. Swanhorst, S. G. Gibbs, J. J. Lowe, P. C. Iwen, A. K. Hayes, S. Needham, D. W. Johnson, D. J. Kalin, W. G. Zeger and R. L. Muelleman
  Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-09-01
  Description: Due to the recent Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, patients with epidemiologic risk for Ebola virus disease and symptoms consistent with Ebola virus disease are presenting to emergency departments (EDs) and clinics in the United States.