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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. -
Creator: Isakov, A., W. Miles, S. Gibbs, J. Lowe, A. Jamison and R. Swansiger
Subject: Pre-Hospital
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015-09-01
Description: The foundation of safe care for patients with confirmed or suspected Ebola virus disease is effective infection control practice, which requires implementation of appropriate administrative policies, work practices, and environmental controls,… -
Creator: JEMS Webcast, Alexander Isakov, Michael J. Carr, Ben Tysor, and Wade Miles
Subject: Pre-hospital
Item Type: Webinar
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-07
Description: This webcast aims to increase awareness about standard and transmission-based infection-control practices and teaches learners how the “Identify, Isolates and Inform” strategy can improve their ability to recognize and manage an infectious disease… -
Creator: Le, A. B., R. Herron, J. J. Herstein, K. C. Jelden, E. L. Beam, S. G. Gibbs, J. J. Lowe and T. D. Smith
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2018-01-21
Description: Despite lessons learned from the recent Ebola epidemic, attempts to survey and determine non-health care worker, industry-specific needs to address highly infectious diseases have been minimal. -
Creator: Lowe, J. J., K. C. Jelden, P. J. Schenarts, L. E. Rupp, K. J. Hawes, B. M. Tysor, R. G. Swansiger, S. S. Schwedhelm, P. W. Smith and S. G. Gibbs
Subject: Pre-Hospital
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015-06-01
Description: The Nebraska Biocontainment Unit through the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, recently received patients with confirmed Ebola virus from West Africa. -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Training and Exercises
Item Type: In Person Course
Date Last Updated: 2018
Description: Past in Person Course Presentation.Course Learning Objectives: Increase healthcare worker knowledge and understanding of serious communicable diseases (smallpox, SARS, MERS, Ebola, novel influenza). Increase understanding of standard and… -
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 from a Portable Isolation Unit to the bed and from the bed to a Portable Isolation Unit. NETEC mission: To increase… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Emergency Medical Services
Item Type: Webinar
Date Last Updated: 2020-06-19
Description: This webinar will review strategies used to transport COVID-19 patients and person under investigation to healthcare facilities, efforts to address challenges, describe a methodology to increase the likelihood of identifying infectious disease risks… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2020-09-25
Description: This interactive guide describes biosafety techniques for EMS situations. When an EMS patient may have COVID-19, it's important to Identify their symptoms and Isolate them from others before and during transportation. After transportation, EMS… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2020-12-04
Description: This printable flyer infographic discusses transporting COVID-19 patients safely.For optimal patient and health care personnel (HCP) safety during EMS transport, environmental controls, policies and procedures, clinical considerations, and usage of…