Browse Items (63 total)

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  BCU Core Competencies

  Tags Category A, Core Competency, Infection Prevention and Control, Internal Transport, Isolation/Biocontainment, Lab, Laboratory, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-IPC, Spills, Waste Management
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Checklist
  Date Last Updated: 2022-10-10
  Description: Biocontainment Unit Working Group Core Competency / Competencies chart diagram.
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  Bio Isolation Transfer Card (BIT) - Bellevue Hospital Center Example

  Tags Emergency Management, EMS, Ground Transport, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Patient Transport, R-IIT
  Creator: Bellevue Hospital Center
  Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
  Item Type: Checklist
  Date Last Updated: 2019
  Description: FDNY Transport to Hospital, Receiving Hospital to Treatment Hospital Transfer
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  Bio Isolation Transfer Card (BIT) - Emory Example

  Tags Biosafety, EMS, Internal Transport, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-IIT, Waste Management
  Creator: Emory
  Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
  Item Type: Checklist
  Date Last Updated: 2019-10-31
  Description: Emory University Hospital (EUH), Serious Communicable Diseases Unit (SCDU), Bio Isolation Transfer Card (BIT),
  EMS Transport to EUH SCDU
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  Bio Isolation Transfer Card (BIT) - Kings County Hospital Example

  Tags Emergency Management, EMS, Ground Transport, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Patient Transport, R-IIT
  Creator: Kings County Hospital
  Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
  Item Type: Checklist
  Date Last Updated: 2019
  Description: FDNY Transport to Hospital, Receiving Hospital Transfer to Treatment Hospital
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  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): CDC's Response to the West African Ebola Epidemic

  Tags Autoclave, Communications, CONOPS, Decontamination, Donning and Doffing, Ebola, Emergency Department, Emergency Management, EMS, Federal, Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Inform, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Occupational Health, Patient Care, Patient Transport, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Physical Infrastructure, Pre-hospital Transport, Public Health, R-PPE, Special Pathogens, Staffing, Staffing Model, Training, Waste
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2024-04-23
  Description: U.S. Healthcare Workers and Settings | Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever | CDC
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  Clinical and epidemiological predictors of transmission in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

  Tags Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, Diagnosis, Droplet Transmission, Epidemiology, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-Res&Pub, SARS
  Creator: Chen, Mark I. C., Angela L. P. Chow, Arul Earnest, Hoe Nam Leong, and Yee Sin Leo.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2006
  Description: Only a minority of probable SARS cases caused transmission. We assess if any epidemiological or clinical factors in SARS index patients were associated with increased probability of transmission.

• Clinical Management of Patients with Ebola: The Nebraska Experience

  Tags Ebola, Isolation/Biocontainment, Patient Care, R-T&C
  Creator: University of Wisconsin (UW)
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2019-04-19
  Description: In this lecture Angela Hewlett, MD, MS presents a case study about caring for patients with Ebola Virus Disease at Nebraska Medical Center in 2014. Dr. Hewlett is an infectious disease specialist and associate medical director of the Nebraska…
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  Containment Wrap in a Special Pathogen Isolation Area

  Tags Ebola, Internal Transport, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Just in Time training (JIT), R-IIT, R-Lead, Skills Video, Special Pathogens
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2018-12-18
  Description: In this video we identify the special considerations needed for transferring a patient infected with Ebola or other special pathogen in a containment wrap with equipment available in your facility. NETEC mission: To increase the capability of United…

• COVID-19 Response Among US Hospitals with Emerging Special Pathogen Programs

  Tags Ebola, Emergency Management, Isolation/Biocontainment, NETEC, Outbreaks, R-Res&Pub, Research, Special Pathogens, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Angela Vasa, Valerie Pacino, Sami Vasistha, Wael ElRayes, John J Lowe
  Subject: Emergency Response
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2022-05-31
  Description: In February 2015, the US Department of Health and Human Services developed a tiered hospital network to deliver safe and effective care to patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD) and other special pathogens. The tiered network consisted of regional…

• Current Capabilities and Capacity of Ebola Treatment Centers in the United States

  Tags Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolation/Biocontainment, Public Health, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub, Regional Treatment Center, State Treatment Center
  Creator: Herstein, J. J., P. D. Biddinger, C. S. Kraft, L. Saiman, S. G. Gibbs, A. B. Le, P. W. Smith, A. L. Hewlett and J. J. Lowe
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-03-01
  Description: To describe current Ebola treatment center (ETC) locations, their capacity to care for Ebola virus disease patients, and infection control infrastructure features.