Browse Items (25 total)

• Genomics and High-Consequence Infectious Diseases: A Scoping Review of Emerging Science and Potential Ethical Issues

  Tags Ethics, Legal, Prophylaxis, R-Res&Pub, Research, Therapeutics
  Creator: Angie M. Boyce and Brian T. Garibaldi.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-02-19
  Description: Host genomic research on high-consequence infectious diseases is a growing area, but the ethical, legal, and social implications of such findings related to potential applications of the research have not yet been identified.

• Duty to Plan: Health Care, Crisis Standards of Care, and Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

  Tags Contingency and crisis capacities, Emergency Management, Ethics, Pandemic, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Treatment and Care
  Creator: By John L. Hick, Dan Hanfling, Matthew K. Wynia, and Andrew T. Pavia
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-05
  Description: The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and resulting disease state COVID-19 pose a direct threat to an over-burdened U.S. medical care system and supporting supply chains for medications and materials.

  Conservation strategies: This resource contains recommendations facilitating conservation of equipment and supplies during contingency (expected shortages) and crisis (known shortages) capacities and should not be applied as guidance when conventional capacities are available.

• Too Many Patients…A Framework to Guide Statewide Allocation of Scarce Mechanical Ventilation During Disasters

  Tags Ethics, Pandemic, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Daugherty Biddison, E. Lee, Ruth Faden, Howard S. Gwon, Darren P. Mareiniss, Alan C. Regenberg, Monica Schoch-Spana, Jack Schwartz, and Eric S. Toner.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-04
  Description: The threat of a catastrophic public health emergency causing life-threatening illness or injury on a massive scale has prompted extensive federal, state, and local preparedness efforts. Modeling studies suggest that an influenza pandemic similar to…
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  VA Pandemic Influenza Plan

  Tags Emergency Management, Ethics, Flu, Influenza, Pandemic, R-EM, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2006-03-31
  Description: The VA Pandemic Influenza Plan has been created to guide VA in protecting staff and Veterans during a pandemic. It is part of VA emergency plans to help all parts of VA with preparation, response, and recovery stages of an influenza pandemic.

• Emory University Coursera Course – Ebola Virus Disease: An Evolving Epidemic

  Tags Communications, Diagnosis, Donning and Doffing, Ebola, Epidemic, Epidemiology, Ethics, Example, Immunology, Infection Prevention and Control, Lab, Laboratory, Laboratory Testing, Nursing, Outbreaks, Outcomes, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Prophylaxis, Public Health, Public Relations, Quarantine, R-PPE, Therapeutics, Virology
  Creator: Emory
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-08
  Description: Ebola Virus Disease: An Evolving Epidemic - Emory University | Coursera

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• Worst case: rethinking tertiary triage protocols in pandemics and other health emergencies

  Tags Critical Care, Ethics, Pandemic, R-EM, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Fink, Sheri L.
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2010
  Description: Demand for critical care resources could vastly outstrip supply in an influenza pandemic or other health emergency, which has led expert groups to propose altered standards for triage and resource allocation.

• 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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  Pregnant Women and Vaccines Against Emerging Epidemic Threats: Ethics Guidance for Preparedness, Research, and Response

  Tags Epidemic, Ethics, Labor and Delivery, Neonates, Pediatrics, Public Health, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, Research, Treatment and Care, Vaccine Study
  Creator: Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, The Pregnancy Research Ethics for Vaccines, Epidemics, and New Technologies (PREVENT) Project
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-05-03
  Description: PREVENT Guidance This Guidance provides a roadmap for the ethically responsible, socially just, and respectful inclusion of the interests of pregnant women in the development and deployment of vaccines against emerging pathogens. The Guidance is a…

• Scientific and ethical basis for social-distancing interventions against COVID-19

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Ethics, Isolate, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Lewnard, Joseph A., and Nathan C. Lo.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-23
  Description: On Dec 31, 2019, the WHO China Country Office received notice of a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown aetiology in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province.

• Building a National Capability to Monitor and Assess Medical Countermeasure Use During a Public Health Emergency: Going Beyond the Last Mile: Proceedings of a Workshop

  Tags Ethics, Federal Research Partners, Informed Consent, Institutional Review Board (IRB), Patient Care, Prophylaxis, Public Health, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study
  Creator: National Academies of Sciences, E. and Medicine
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-10-31
  Description: During public health emergencies (PHEs) involving chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear threats or emerging infectious diseases, medical countermeasures (MCMs) (e.g., drugs, vaccines, devices) may need to be dispensed or administered to…