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Creator: NETEC
Subject: Emergency Medical Services
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2023-03-09
Description: This NETEC blog post discusses EMS guidelines for Marburg Virus Disease. Marburg virus disease (MVD) is a rare but severe viral hemorrhagic fever caused by Marburg virus, which is part of the filoviridae family that includes Ebola virus. Cases of MVD… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Emergency Medical Services
Item Type: Online Course
Date Last Updated: 2022-12-22
Description: This interactive module covers EMS Biosafety Transport relating to viral hemorrhagic fevers and specifically Ebola virus disease. -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Emergency Medical Services
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2022-10-19
Description: This blog post covers considerations related to EMS.While it is unlikely that emergency medical services (EMS) personnel in the United States will encounter a person infected with Ebola virus during routine operations, an Ebola outbreak reported… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Emergency Medical Services
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2022-05-19
Description: It is very unlikely that EMS clinicians will encounter a person infected with Mpox during routine operations, however EMS professionals should follow an identify, isolate, and inform strategy to prevent the spread of illness. This blog post covers… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Emergency Medical Services
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2021-07-23
Description: On July 8-9 a U.S. citizen traveled from Nigeria to Dallas, TX, via Atlanta, GA. On July 13 the patient presented to an emergency department for a rash that had been present since July 7. The patient was diagnosed with Mpox and isolated.This blog… -
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… -
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: 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: 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: Gibbs, Shawn G., Jocelyn J. Herstein, Aurora B. Le, Elizabeth L. Beam, Theodore J. Cieslak, James V. Lawler, Joshua L. Santarpia, Terry L. Stentz, Kelli R. Kopocis-Herstein, Chandran Achutan, Gary W. Carter, and John J. Lowe.
Subject: Pre-Hospital
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-10
Description: Aeromedical evacuation (AE) is a challenging process, further complicated when a patient has a highly hazardous communicable disease (HHCD).