Browse Items (68 total)

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  Different types of door-opening motions as contributing factors to containment failures in hospital isolation rooms

  Tags Coronavirus, Flu, Infection Prevention and Control, Influenza, Isolate, Isolation/Biocontainment, Occupational Exposure, Physical Infrastructure, R-PhIn, R-Res&Pub, SARS, Staff Support, Staffing
  Creator: Tang, Julian W., Andre Nicolle, Jovan Pantelic, Christian A. Klettner, Ruikun Su, Petri Kalliomaki, Pekka Saarinen, Hannu Koskela, Kari Reijula, Panu Mustakallio, David K. W. Cheong, Chandra Sekhar, and Kwok Wai Tham.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2013-06-24
  Description: Hospital isolation rooms are vital for the containment (when under negative pressure) of patients with, or the protection (when under positive pressure) of patients, from airborne infectious agents.

• Care of patients with Ebola virus disease

  Tags Infection Prevention and Control, Isolate, Nursing, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Staff Support, Staffing, Training, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Feistritzer, N. R., C. Hill, S. Vanairsdale, and J. Gentry
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2014-11
  Description: Caring for patients with Ebola virus disease requires strict biosafety protocols to eliminate exposure and ensure containment. Training and competency verification were critical to creation of a safe environment for nursing staff involved in the…

• Ebola: how to repatriate contaminated health care providers?/Ebola : comment faire pour rapatrier les soignants contaminés ?

  Tags Contact Transmission, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Epidemic, Epidemiology, Français, French, Infection Prevention and Control, Occupational Exposure, Occupational Health, Personnel Management, Quarantine, R-Res&Pub, Staffing, Therapeutics, Travel Screening, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Nau JY.
  Subject: Contenu Français
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2014-11-05
  Description: Les médias français n’en ont pas été informés : début octobre, une infirmière norvégienne, contaminée par le virus Ebola, a été rapatriée par une société française d’assistance médicale depuis Freetown jusqu’à Oslo, via Las Palmas et Le Bourget.
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  Clinical care of two patients with Ebola virus disease in the United States

  Tags Critical Care, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Staffing, Staffing Model, Therapeutics
  Creator: Lyon, G. M., A. K. Mehta, J. B. Varkey, K. Brantly, L. Plyler, A. K. McElroy, C. S. Kraft, J. S. Towner, C. Spiropoulou, U. Stroher, T. M. Uyeki, B. S. Ribner and U. Emory Serious Communicable Diseases
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2014-12-18
  Description: West Africa is currently experiencing the largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in history.

• Reflections on interprofessional team-based clinical care in the ebola epidemic: The Nebraska Medicine experience

  Tags Ebola, Nursing, Patient Care, R-T&C, Staff Support, Staffing, Staffing Model, Training
  Creator: Schwedhelm, S., E. L. Beam, R. D. Morris and J. G. Sebastian
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-02-01
  Description: Team-based interprofessional care has become the gold standard for comprehensive and efficient health care.

• Planning and response to Ebola virus disease: An integrated approach

  Tags Ebola, Emergency Management, EMS, Exercises and Drills, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-Lead, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, Staffing, Staffing Model, Training, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Smith, P. W., K. C. Boulter, A. L. Hewlett, C. J. Kratochvil, E. J. Beam, S. G. Gibbs, J. M. Lowe and M. M. Schwedhelm
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-05-01
  Description: The care of patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD) requires the application of critical care medicine principles under conditions of stringent infection control precautions.

• Learning from Ebola: Interprofessional practice in the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit

  Tags Ebola, Example, Isolation/Biocontainment, Nursing, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, Staffing, Staffing Model
  Creator: Jelden, K. C., P. W. Smith, M. M. Schwedhelm, S. G. Gibbs, J. J. Lowe, E. L. Beam, C. J. Kratochvil, K. C. Boulter and A. L. Hewlett
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-12-01
  Description: Caring for patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit (NBU) has necessitated and enabled extensive interprofessional relationships and the creation of a collaborative care model.

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  Pre-Hire Exam Draft

  Tags Leadership Toolbox, Preparedness Tools, R-Lead, R-PM, Recruitment, Staffing, Staffing Model
  Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Checklist
  Date Last Updated: 2016-03-24
  Description: Leadership Toolbox, Preparedness: Nebraska Biocontainment Pre-Hire Exam
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  "Knowledge and attitudes of healthcare workers towards a suspect case of Ebola virus disease/Conocimientos y aptitudes del personal sanitario frente a sospecha de caso de enfermedad por el virus del Ébola"

  Tags Contact Transmission, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Epidemiology, Español, Infection Prevention and Control, Outbreaks, Public Health, R-Res&Pub, Spanish, Staff Support, Staffing, Treatment and Care, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Gómez-Romero FJ, Gómez-García JM, Arencibia-Jiménez M, Delgado-de Los Reyes JA, Sarmiento-Sempere R, García-Abad I, Vicedo-Cano R, Pérez-Torregrosa G, Navarro-Gracia JF.
  Subject: Elementos en Español
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-04-01
  Description: The last outbreak of the Ebola virus disease, was a precedent to demonstrate the necessary training of healthcare personnel for possible eventualities of suspected cases of infectious diseases. It is required to study the level of…
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  The Creation of a Biocontainment Unit at a Tertiary Care Hospital. The Johns Hopkins Medicine Experience.

  Tags Bioseal, Contact Transmission, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-PhIn, R-Res&Pub, Region 3, Special Pathogens, Staff Rotation Schedules, Staffing
  Creator: Johns Hopkins
  Subject: Physical Infrastructure
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-05-01
  Description: In response to the 2014-2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa, Johns Hopkins Medicine created a biocontainment unit to care for patients infected with Ebola virus and other high-consequence pathogens.