Browse Items (15 total)

• Ebola surgical protocols enhance safety of patients and personnel

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Occupational Health, Patient Care, Patient Transport, R-IPC, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Surgery
  Creator: Mathias, J. M.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-04-30
  Description: In the months since Ebola patients were first treated in US hospitals, much progress has been made in establishing protocols to protect patients and healthcare workers from harm.

• Clinical challenges in isolation care.

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Critical Care, Infection Prevention and Control, Nursing, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Beam, E., S. G. Gibbs, A. L. Hewlett, P. C. Iwen, S. L. Nuss and P. W. Smith
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-04-01
  Description: In 2014, the authors published the results of a study investigating nurses' use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the care of a live simulated patient requiring contact and airborne precautions. 

• 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.

• Ebola Virus Disease: Clinical Challenges, Recognition, and Management.

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Ebola, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Special Pathogens, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Beam, Elizabeth L., Michelle M. Schwedhelm, Kathleen C. Boulter, Angela M. Vasa, LuAnn Larson, Theodore J. Cieslak, John J. Lowe, Jocelyn J. Herstein, Christopher J. Kratochvil, and Angela L. Hewlett.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-03-26
  Description: The 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak response resulted in many lessons learned about biocontainment patient care, leading to enhanced domestic capabilities for highly infectious and hazardous communicable diseases. Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All…
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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.