Browse Items (16 total)

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  After the Ebola Outbreak: Lessons Learned

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Experimental Drugs, Follow up, Infection Prevention and Control, Nursing, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Prophylaxis, R-PPE, Survivors, Therapeutics, Training, Translational Research
  Creator: Loftus, Mary (editor), Emory Medicine
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2018-02-20
  Description: In the wake of caring for four patients with active Ebola virus in 2014, Emory clinicians have taken stock of lessons learned in infectious disease prevention, therapeutic care, and health aftereffects and are sharing that information broadly with…

• An observational cohort study of triage for critical care provision during pandemic influenza: ‘clipboard physicians’ or ‘evidenced based medicine’?

  Tags Critical Care, Ethics, Flu, Influenza, Pandemic, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Guest, T., G. Tantam, N. Donlin, K. Tantam, H. McMillan, and A. Tillyard.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2009-10-09
  Description: We assessed the impact of a United Kingdom government‐recommended triage process, designed to guide the decision to admit patients to intensive care during an influenza pandemic, on patients in a teaching hospital intensive care unit.
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  Characteristics and Clinical Management of a Cluster of 3 Patients With Ebola Virus Disease, Including the First Domestically Acquired Cases in the United States

  Tags Critical Care, Diagnosis, Ebola, Example, Immunology, Occupational Exposure, Occupational Health, Patient Care, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Liddell, A. M., R. T. Davey, Jr., A. K. Mehta, J. B. Varkey, C. S. Kraft, G. K. Tseggay, O. Badidi, A. C. Faust, K. V. Brown, A. F. Suffredini, K. Barrett, M. J. Wolcott, V. C. Marconi, G. M. Lyon, 3rd, G. L. Weinstein, K. Weinmeister, S. Sutton, M.…
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-07-21
  Description: More than 26,000 cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) have been reported in western Africa, with high mortality. Several patients have been medically evacuated to hospitals in the United States and Europe.

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  Clinical care of two patients with Ebola virus disease in the United States

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Staffing, Staffing Model, Therapeutics
  Creator: Lyon, G. M., A. K. Mehta, J. B. Varkey, K. Brantly, L. Plyler, A. K. McElroy, C. S. Kraft, J. S. Towner, C. Spiropoulou, U. Stroher, T. M. Uyeki, B. S. Ribner and U. Emory Serious Communicable Diseases
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2014-12-18
  Description: West Africa is currently experiencing the largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in history.

• 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.

• Clinical Management of Patients with Ebola Virus Disease in High-Resource Settings

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Staffing, Staffing Model, Therapeutics
  Creator: Marshall Lyon, G., A. K. Mehta and B. S. Ribner
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-06-11
  Description: Like most viral illnesses in humans, supportive care of the patient is the mainstay of clinical care for patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD).
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  Critical Care for the Patient with Ebola Virus Disease (EBV): The Nebraska Perspective

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Vasa, A., M. Schwedhelm and D. Johnson
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-11-26
  Description: Care for patients with Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and other highly infectious diseases is demanding and requires an unwavering commitment to teamwork and stringent infection control measures.

• Does triage to critical care during a pandemic necessarily result in more survivors?

  Tags Critical Care, Ethics, Pandemic, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Utley, Martin, Christina Pagel, Mark J. Peters, Andy Petros, and Paula Lister.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2011-01
  Description: The 2009 H1N1 pandemic reinforced the need for a planned response to increased demand for critical care.

• Ebola virus disease and critical illness

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Leligdowicz, A., W. A. Fischer, 2nd, T. M. Uyeki, T. E. Fletcher, N. K. Adhikari, G. Portella, F. Lamontagne, C. Clement, S. T. Jacob, L. Rubinson, A. Vanderschuren, J. Hajek, S. Murthy, M. Ferri, I. Crozier, E. Ibrahima, M. C. Lamah, J. S.…
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-07-29
  Description: As of 20 May 2016 there have been 28,646 cases and 11,323 deaths resulting from the West African Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak reported to the World Health Organization.