Ebola Outbreak in Congo Declared Public Health Emergency of International Concern – How the NETEC is Prepared to Help
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On Wednesday, the World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern for Ebola virus disease after a confirmed first case in the DRC’s largest city, Goma – home to more than 2 million people.
The National Ebola Training & Education Center has many resources, training, and education opportunities to help develop a preparedness strategy should a patient infected with EVD enter your facility. Below is a list of a few of our useful resources:
Online Course: Identify, Isolate, Inform: Management and Placement of PUI
This course will discuss the assessment, management, and placement of persons suspected to have Ebola and Other Special Pathogens. It will explain the tiered system developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a national framework to coordinate a networked approach to mitigate disease transmission and activate resources within your state and FEMA region. This course is designed for an audience of healthcare providers.
Online Course: Special Pathogens of Concern: Ebola Virus Disease
It is critical that healthcare personnel have knowledge of Ebola and the implications for healthcare delivery in a biocontainment unit (BCU). In this course, learners will be able to describe pathogen-related factors that may warrant treatment in a biocontainment unit. Learners will also be able to describe the clinical presentation of Ebola.
Video: Just in Time Preparedness Training Videos
These short videos display skills and critical actions advised when performing the procedures. The processes may be adapted to meet the needs of all frontline, assessment and treatment facilities.
Exercise Template: Assessment Hospital Ebola Drill, Functional & Full Scale
This is an operations-based exercise intended to assess the Assessment Hospital’s ability to identify and stabilize a potentially infected patient with EVD; to initiate care and implement special protocols that may be required for the protection of the healthcare facility and its staff; and to coordinate such care with other HCC partners, including EMS, Public Health and Emergency Management.
Mapped Outbreak Data – Stay Up-to-Date
With a heightened Ebola outbreak, use our website to stay updated with our outbreak map, up-to-date newsfeed and journal updates, travel notices and infectious disease journal articles. Be sure to bookmark this page in your web browser..
To view additional resources, visit our online repository. If you have questions, or need assistance, please feel free to contact us.