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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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Créateur: DuBose, J. R., Z. Matić, M. F. W. Sala, J. M. Mumma, C. S. Kraft, L. M. Casanova, K. Erukunuakpor, F. T. Durso, V. L. Walsh, P. Shah, C. M. Zimring and J. T. Jacob.
Sujet: Personnel Management
Type d'élément: Publication
Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2018-06-18
Description: To identify ways that the built environment may support or disrupt safe doffing of personal protective equipment (PPE) in biocontainment units (BCU).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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Créateur: Le, A. B., S. A. Buehler, P. M. Maniscalco, P. Lane, L. E. Rupp, E. Ernest, D. Von Seggern, K. West, J. J. Herstein, K. C. Jelden, E. L. Beam, S. G. Gibbs and J. J. Lowe.
Sujet: Research
Type d'élément: Publication
Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2018-03-00
Description: The Ebola virus disease outbreak highlighted the lack of consistent guidelines and training for workers outside of hospital settings. Specifically, emergency medical services (EMS) workers, who are frequently the first professionals to evaluate…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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Créateur: NETEC
Sujet: Training and Exercises
Type d'élément: Cours présenciel
Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2018
Description: Past in Person Course Presentation - Recognize components of maintaining a safe work environment. Differentiate safe and risky behavior when using PPE. Recognize safe and risky behavior in donning and doffing PPE in patient care scenarios. -
Créateur: NETEC
Sujet: Training and Exercises
Type d'élément: Cours présenciel
Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2018
Description: Past in Person Course Presentation - Explore what pathogen related factors may warrant treatment in a biocontainment unit. Describe the clinical presentation of selected special pathogens or high consequence infectious diseases. 2 broad categories:… -
Créateur: NETEC
Sujet: Training and Exercises
Type d'élément: Cours présenciel
Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2017
Description: Past In Person Course Presentation: Describe the "all -hazards" approach to managing the care of highly infectious disease (HID) patients. Describe the use of the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) in the care of HID patients. Describe the key… -
Créateur: CDC, Shannon L.M. Whitmer, Thomas Strecker, Daniel Cadar, Hans-Peter Dienes, Kelly Faber, Ketan Patel, Shelley M. Brown, William G. Davis, John D. Klena, Pierre E. Rollin, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet, Bernd Noack, Petra Emmerich,…
Sujet: Research
Type d'élément: Publication
Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2018-03-31
Description: We describe a strain of Lassa virus representing a putative new lineage that was isolated from a cluster of human infections with an epidemiologic link to Togo. This finding extends the known range of Lassa virus to Togo. -
Créateur: Haddad, L. B., J. Horton, B. S. Ribner and D. J. Jamieson
Sujet: Research
Type d'élément: Publication
Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2018-03-18
Description: The 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak, primarily based in 3 West African countries, had far-reaching global effects. -
Créateur: NETEC
Sujet: Infection Control
Type d'élément: Cours en ligne
Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2018-04-26
Description: It is critical that healthcare personnel have knowledge of Ebola and other special pathogens of concern and their implications for healthcare delivery in a biocontainment unit (BCU). In this course, learners will be able to describe pathogen-related… -
Créateur: Herstein, J. J., P. D. Biddinger, S. G. Gibbs, A. B. Le, K. C. Jelden, A. L. Hewlett and J. J. Lowe
Sujet: General
Type d'élément: Publication
Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2017-12-07
Description: US state public health departments played key roles in planning for and responding to confirmed and suspected cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) during the 2014-2016 outbreak, including designating select hospitals as high-level isolation units… -
Créateur: Herstein, J. J., P. C. Iwen, K. C. Jelden, P. D. Biddinger, S. G. Gibbs, A. B. Le, A. L. Hewlett and J. J. Lowe
Sujet: Laboratory
Type d'élément: Publication
Date de la dernière mise à jour: 2018-01-04
Description: In late 2014, 56 hospitals in the United States were designated by state and federal public health authorities as specially designed high-level isolation units (HLIUs) equipped with advanced infrastructure, laboratory capabilities, and trained staff…
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