Browse Items (278 total)

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  Validation of Autoclave Protocols for Successful Decontamination of Category A Medical Waste Generated from Care of Patients with Serious Communicable Diseases.

  Tags Autoclave, Category A, Decontamination, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub, Waste
  Creator: Johns Hopkins
  Subject: Waste Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-02-01
  Description: General Resources | Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Resources: In response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014, many hospitals designated specific areas to care for patients with Ebola and other highly infectious diseases. The safe handling of category A…
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  Cleaning Up Spills

  Tags Decontamination, Infection Prevention and Control, R-IPC, Spills, Waste
  Creator: Emory
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2014-12-03
  Description: Archived resource: This may not reflect current practices at the home institution. This web page is available for historical purposes. Please check the Resource Library for more up-to-date resources. Emory University Videos - National Ebola Training…

• World Health Organization Ebola Virus Disease Information

  Tags Ebola, Epidemic, Follow up, Infection Prevention and Control, Outbreaks, Patient Care, Public Health, R-IPC, Survivors
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-08
  Description: WHO | World Health Organization

• CDC MERS-CoV

  Tags Coronavirus, Federal, Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Inform, Isolate, Lab, Laboratory, MERS-CoV, Patient Care, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Public Health, Quarantine, R-IPC, Respiratory Pathogen, Specimen Collection
  Creator: CDC
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-08
  Description: MERS-CoV | Home | Middle East Respiratory Syndrome | Coronavirus | CDC

• ASPR TRACIE SARS/MERS

  Tags Coronavirus, Federal, Identify, Infection Prevention and Control, Inform, Isolate, Lab, Laboratory, MERS-CoV, Patient Care, Person Under Investigation (PUI), Public Health, Quarantine, R-IPC, Respiratory Pathogen, SARS, Specimen Collection
  Creator: ASPR TRACIE
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Hyperlink
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-08
  Description: SARS/MERS | Technical Resources | TRACIE

• Radiographic imaging for patients with contagious infectious diseases: how to acquire chest radiographs of patients infected with the Ebola virus

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Auffermann, W. F., C. S. Kraft, S. Vanairsdale, G. M. Lyon, 3rd and S. Tridandapani
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-01-01
  Description: Contagious infectious diseases add a new dimension to radiology and pose many unanswered questions. 
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  Successful delivery of RRT in Ebola virus disease.

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Complications, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics
  Creator: Connor, M. J., Jr., C. Kraft, A. K. Mehta, J. B. Varkey, G. M. Lyon, I. Crozier, U. Stroher, B. S. Ribner and H. A. Franch
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-01-01
  Description: AKI has been observed in cases of Ebola virus disease. 

• Nebraska Biocontainment Unit patient discharge and environmental decontamination after Ebola care

  Tags Decontamination, Discharge, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Jelden, K. C., S. G. Gibbs, P. W. Smith, M. M. Schwedhelm, P. C. Iwen, E. L. Beam, A. K. Hayes, N. Marion, C. J. Kratochvil, K. C. Boulter, A. L. Hewlett and J. J. Lowe
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-03-01
  Description: The Nebraska Biocontainment Unit (NBUacrnm1), which operates through collaboration of Nebraska Medicine, the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, recently treated patients with Ebola viru...
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  A pilot survey of the U.S. medical waste industry to determine training needs for safely handling highly infectious waste

  Tags Autoclave, Category A, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub, R-T&E, Special Pathogens, Training, Waste
  Creator: Le, A. B., S. Hoboy, A. Germain, H. Miller, R. Thompson, J. J. Herstein, K. C. Jelden, E. L. Beam, S. G. Gibbs and J. J. Lowe
  Subject: Waste Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-17
  Description: The recent Ebola outbreak led to the development of Ebola virus disease (EVD) best practices in clinical settings. However, after the care of EVD patients, proper medical waste management and disposal was identified as a crucial component to…

• Surrogate Testing Suggests That Chlorine Dioxide Gas Exposure Would Not Inactivate Ebola Virus Contained in Environmental Blood Contamination

  Tags Biosafety, Ebola, Lab, Laboratory, Laboratory Testing, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub, Specimen Handling
  Creator: Lowe, J. J., A. L. Hewlett, P. C. Iwen, P. W. Smith and S. G. Gibbs
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-05-08
  Description: The ability to decontaminate a room potentially containing the Ebola virus is important to healthcare facilities in the United States.