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Creator: NIOSH NPPTL
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Webinar
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-07
Description: This is a NIOSH NPPTL Webinar, from the Date/Time: Thursday, May 7, 2020, 1:00 p.m. EDT
When there is a shortage of NIOSH-approved filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs), as we are experiencing during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)… -
Creator: Lydia Cassorla
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-10-15
Description: The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) pandemic created an extraordinary demand for N95 and similarly rated filtering facepiece respirators (FFR) that remain unmet due to limited stock, production constraints, and logistics. Interest in… -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2023-05-08
Description: Audience: These considerations are intended for use by federal, state, and local public health officials, respiratory protection program managers, leaders in occupational health services and infection prevention and control programs, and other…Conservation strategies: This resource contains recommendations facilitating conservation of equipment and supplies during contingency (expected shortages) and crisis (known shortages) capacities and should not be applied as guidance when conventional capacities are available.
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Creator: NETEC
Subject: Pre-Hospital
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2024-05-14
Description: Who is this for: Managers of 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies EMS systems law enforcement agencies and fire service agencies as well as individual emergency medical services providers including… -
Creator: David S. Cates, Paula G. Gomes, and Arthur M. Krasilovsky
Subject: Personnel Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2018-07-07
Description: During the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, over 850 healthcare workers contracted Ebola, and over 500 died. These tragic numbers underscore the need for strict adherence to infection control precautions when caring for patients with Ebola… -
Creator: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Subject: Emergency Medical Services
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2014-11-24
Description: OSHA's PPE Selection Matrix for Occupational Exposure to Ebola Virus provides task-based guidance to help employers select appropriate PPE for workers who may be exposed to ebolavirus. The matrix covers examples of common exposures, ranging from… -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Emergency Medical Services
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2023
Description: Who this is for: EMS clinicians (including emergency medical responders (EMR), emergency medical technicians (EMTs), advanced EMTs (AEMTs), paramedics, and other medical first responders who could be providing patient care in the field, such as law… -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Emergency Medical Services
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2016-01-28
Description: This resource was originally commissioned and published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.This document provides guidance to facilitate planning for and execution of patient handoff between an air ambulance agency and a ground… -
Creator: Kumar, L. and A. P. Isakov
Subject: Emergency Medical Services
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2018-07-07
Description: Serious recurrent and emerging communicable diseases, such as novel influenza strains, highly pathogenic viral hemorrhagic fevers, and novel coronaviruses in an era of increased globalization and travel, necessitate heightened vigilance and… -
Creator: State of the Clinical Science Working Group of the National Emerging Pathogens Training and Education Center’s (NETEC) Special Pathogens Research Network (SPRN)
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2024-05
Description: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a tickborne infection that can range from asymptomatic to fatal and has been described in >30 countries. Early identification and isolation of patients with suspected or confirmed CCHF and the use of…