Browse Items (26 total)

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  Specimen Collection and CDC Laboratory Testing for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV)

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Example, Laboratory, Laboratory Testing, MERS-CoV, R-Lab, Specimen Collection
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2024-03-18
  Description: Before collecting and handling specimens for MERS-CoV testing, determine whether the person meets the current definition for a "patient under investigation" PUI for MERS-CoV infection. On This Page: Testing for MERS-CoV Collecting, Handling, and…

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  Safe management of patients with serious communicable diseases: recent experience with Ebola virus

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Ebola, EMS, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, Patient Transport, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Pre-hospital Transport, R-EMS, R-PreH, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics
  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.
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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…

• Radiographic imaging for patients with contagious infectious diseases: how to acquire chest radiographs of patients infected with the Ebola virus

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Auffermann, W. F., C. S. Kraft, S. Vanairsdale, G. M. Lyon, 3rd and S. Tridandapani
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-01-01
  Description: Contagious infectious diseases add a new dimension to radiology and pose many unanswered questions. 
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  Successful delivery of RRT in Ebola virus disease.

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Complications, Ebola, Example, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Connor, M. J., Jr., C. Kraft, A. K. Mehta, J. B. Varkey, G. M. Lyon, I. Crozier, U. Stroher, B. S. Ribner and H. A. Franch
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-01-01
  Description: AKI has been observed in cases of Ebola virus disease. 

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• Lessons learned: critical care management of patients with Ebola in the United States

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Critical Care, Ebola, Example, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Phlebotomy, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Johnson, D. W., J. N. Sullivan, C. A. Piquette, A. L. Hewlett, K. L. Bailey, P. W. Smith, A. C. Kalil and S. J. Lisco
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-06-01
  Description: This report will describe the preparations for and the provision of care of two patients with Ebola virus disease in the biocontainment unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

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• 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: Clinical management of Ebola virus disease

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Critical Care, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018-07-05
  Description: This comprehensive intermediate level course is for clinicians caring for patients with suspected or confirmed Ebola virus disease (EVD). Modules provide information on screening and triage, infection prevention and control, laboratory diagnostics,…