Preparedness Questions: These questions should serve as a guide for examining your plans and processes and applying what you learn in the Biopreparedness: Identify, Isolate, Inform Course to your own facility.

Resources

Resources to support the Preparedness questions above.

Additional Resources and References

Interfacility transportation:

• CDC Guidance for Interfacility Transport for a person under investigation or patient with confirmed Ebola: Download here.
• CDC Guidance for patient handoff: Download here.
• CDC Guidance for air-to-ground handoff: Download here.

Ambulance decontamination:

• CDC guidance for ambulance decontamination: Download here.

All hazards EMS guidance:

• EMS Infectious Disease Playbook.

Laboratory Guidance:

• CDC Guidance for Laboratory Testing for Patients with a Suspected VHF, with specimen collection, packaging and shipping: https://www.cdc.gov/viral-hemorrhagic-fevers/php/laboratories/index.html
• CDC Guidance for frontline labs: https://www.cdc.gov/ebola/php/public-health-strategy/interim-guidance-for-preparing-frontline-healthcare-facilities-for-patients-suspected-to-have-ebola.html
• APHL Laboratory Risk Assessment Best Practices Templates (PDF).
• APHL Public Health Laboratory Risk Assessment Template for EBV (PDF).
• APHL Biosafety Checklist (PDF).
• WHO - Guidelines for the Safe Transport of Infectious Substances: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240019720
• APHL Packaging and Shipping Toolkit: https://www.aphl.org/programs/infectious_disease/Pages/ID-Packaging-and-Shipping-Toolkit.aspx
• CDC - Packing and Shipping Dangerous Goods: What the Laboratory Staff Must Know (CEU online course): https://reach.cdc.gov/course/packing-and-shipping-dangerous-goods-what-laboratory-staff-must-know
• CDC Division of Laboratory Systems (DLS) Training Site: https://www.cdc.gov/laboratory-systems/php/about/