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Get introduced to NETEC through the interactive timeline of special pathogens below.* This timeline describes some significant special pathogen events in recent history.
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Find out more about the 2014 Ebola outbreak and the development of the ASPR/CDC-supported network of healthcare facilities preparing for the next outbreak through .
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This NETEC Repository helps to provide training and educational resources to prepare for future special pathogen events.
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Explore the files BELOW THE TIMELINE to discover and learn more about Ebola and other Special Pathogens, an overview of special pathogens, clinically managing patients affected, and readying healthcare teams and systems to keep everyone safe.
Timeline of Special Pathogens:
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Collection Resources
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Autor: CDC
Tema: Infection Control
Tipo de elemento: Hipervínculo
Fecha de actualización: 2020-05-18
Descripción: Information regarding damaged or degraded head straps on previously stockpiled NIOSH-approved filtering facepiece respirators
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Autor: Peak, Corey M., Rebecca Kahn, Yonatan H. Grad, Lauren M. Childs, Ruoran Li, Marc Lipsitch, and Caroline O. Buckee.
Tema: Infection Control
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-05-20
Descripción: Voluntary individual quarantine and voluntary active monitoring of contacts are core disease control strategies for emerging infectious diseases such as COVID-19.A response to this article was published:Bauch, Chris T., and Madhur Anand. 2020.… -
Autor: Mello, Michelle M., Govind Persad, and Douglas B. White.
Tema: Emergency Management
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-05-19
Descripción: In times of emergency, many legal strictures can flex. For example, to enable hospitals to respond to Covid-19, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently waived a swath of federal regulatory requirements. -
Autor: Solomon, Mildred Z., Matthew K. Wynia, and Lawrence O. Gostin.
Tema: Emergency Management
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-05-19
Descripción: On March 28, 2020, the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) opened investigations into recently released critical care crisis triage protocols. -
Autor: Solomon, Matthew D., Edward J. McNulty, Jamal S. Rana, Thomas K. Leong, Catherine Lee, Sue-Hee Sung, Andrew P. Ambrosy, Stephen Sidney, and Alan S. Go.
Tema: Research
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-05-19
Descripción: During the Covid-19 pandemic, reports have suggested a decrease in the number of patients presenting to hospitals because of emergency conditions such as acute myocardial infarction. -
Autor: Khalil, Asma, Robert Hill, Shamez Ladhani, Katherine Pattisson, and Pat O'Brien.
Tema: Infection Control
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-05-18
Descripción: There have been increasing calls for universal screening of health-care workers for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). -
Autor: Guarneri, Claudio, Emmanuele Venanzi Rullo, Piero Pavone, Massimiliano Berretta, Manuela Ceccarelli, Alfonso Natale, and Giuseppe Nunnari.
Tema: Treatment & Care
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-05-18
Descripción: Clinical manifestations of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are rare or absent in children and adolescents; hence, early clinical detection is fundamental to prevent further spreading. We report three young patients presenting with chilblain-like… -
Autor: Shadman Aziz, Yaseen M. Arabi, Waleed Alhazzani, Laura Evans, GiuseppeCiterio, Katherine Fischkoff, Jorge Salluh, Geert Meyfroidt, Fayez Alshamsi, Simon Oczkowski, Elie Azoulay, Amy Price, Lisa Burry, Amy Dzierba, Andrew Benintende, Jill Morgan,…
Tema: Emergency Management
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-05-17
Descripción: Given the rapidly changing nature of COVID-19, clinicians and policy makers require urgent review and summary of literature, and synthesis of evidence-based guidelines to inform practice. -
Autor: Yager, Phoebe H., Kimberly A. Whalen, and Brian M. Cummings.
Tema: Physical Infrastructure
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-05-15
Descripción: Massachusetts quickly followed New York in becoming an epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, but just a handful of infected children required hospitalization. On April 2, 2020, the Massachusetts General Hospital incident command team determined that no…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.
Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.
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Autor: Berlin, David A., Roy M. Gulick, and Fernando J. Martinez.
Tema: Treatment & Care
Tipo de elemento: Publicación
Fecha de actualización: 2020-05-15
Descripción: A 50-year-old, previously healthy man presents to the emergency department with 2 days of worsening dyspnea. He had fever, cough, and fatigue during the week before presentation. He appears acutely ill. The body temperature is 39.5°C (103°F), heart…Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.
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