Browse Items (842 total)

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  Identification of acutely sick people and facial cues of sickness

  Tags Example, Patient Care, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, Staff Support, Staffing
  Creator: Axelsson, John, Tina Sundelin, Mats J. Olsson, Kimmo Sorjonen, Charlotte Axelsson, Julie Lasselin, and Mats Lekander.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-03
  Description: Detection and avoidance of sick individuals have been proposed as essential components in a behavioural defence against disease, limiting the risk of contamination.

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• Healthcare Workers’ Strategies for Doffing Personal Protective Equipment

  Tags Donning and Doffing, Gloves, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PM, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Baloh, Jure, Heather Schacht Reisinger, Kimberly Dukes, Jaqueline Pereira da Silva, Hugh P. Salehi, Melissa Ward, Emily E. Chasco, Priyadarshini R. Pennathur, and Loreen Herwaldt.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-10-01
  Description: Personal protective equipment (PPE) helps protect healthcare workers (HCWs) from pathogens and prevents cross-contamination.
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  One month follow up of a neonate born to a mother who survived Ebola virus disease during pregnancy: a case report in the Democratic Republic of Congo

  Tags Neonates, Pediatrics, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, R-T&C, Survivors
  Creator: Baraka NK, Mumbere M, Ndombe E.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-06-18
  Description: The authors report a 1 month follow up of a neonate described as "miracle baby" because she was born Ebola virus disease-free and survived after her mother was infected with Ebola virus during the third trimester of pregnancy.

• Chimpanzee adenovirus type 3 vectored Ebola vaccine: expanding the field

  Tags Ebola, R-Res&Pub, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Bavari, Sina, and Patrick L. Iversen.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-19
  Description: Two phase 2 randomised clinical trials evaluating ChAd3-EBO-Z administered to healthy adults in Cameroon, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal and healthy children in Mali and Senegal are reported by Milagritos Tapia and colleagues in The Lancet Infectious…

• Personal protective equipment processes and rationale for the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit during the 2014 activations for Ebola virus disease.

  Tags Contact Transmission, Donning and Doffing, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Beam, E. L., S. Schwedhelm, K. Boulter, C. Kratochvil, J. Lowe, A. Hewlett, S. G. Gibbs and P. W. Smith
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-03-01
  Description: In response to the Ebola virus disease outbreak of 2014, specific procedures for personal protective equipment use were developed in the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit for the isolation care of patients with the illness.

• Clinical challenges in isolation care.

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Critical Care, Infection Prevention and Control, Nursing, Patient Care, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Beam, E., S. G. Gibbs, A. L. Hewlett, P. C. Iwen, S. L. Nuss and P. W. Smith
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-04-01
  Description: In 2014, the authors published the results of a study investigating nurses' use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the care of a live simulated patient requiring contact and airborne precautions. 

• Ebola Virus Disease: Clinical Challenges, Recognition, and Management.

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Ebola, Isolation/Biocontainment, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Special Pathogens, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Beam, Elizabeth L., Michelle M. Schwedhelm, Kathleen C. Boulter, Angela M. Vasa, LuAnn Larson, Theodore J. Cieslak, John J. Lowe, Jocelyn J. Herstein, Christopher J. Kratochvil, and Angela L. Hewlett.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-03-26
  Description: The 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak response resulted in many lessons learned about biocontainment patient care, leading to enhanced domestic capabilities for highly infectious and hazardous communicable diseases. Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All…
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  Ebola virus disease and pregnancy - A review of the current knowledge of Ebola virus pathogenesis, maternal and neonatal outcomes

  Tags Labor and Delivery, Outcomes, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, Vaccine Study
  Creator: Bebell, Lisa M., Titilope Oduyebo, and Laura E. Riley.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2017-03-15
  Description: The 2014-2016 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa devastated local health systems and caused thousands of deaths.
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  D Nurse Responsibilities

  Tags Example, Leadership Toolbox, Nursing, Other Tools, R-Lead, R-T&E, Special Pathogens
  Creator: Bellevue
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Protocol
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-25
  Description: Leadership Toolbox, More Tools: Bellevue Special Pathogens Program D Nurse Responsibilities

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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