CDC – Detailed Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Checklist for Ebola Preparedness

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ems-checklist-ebola-preparedness-(2)-1 This checklist is intended to enhance collective preparedness and response by highlighting key areas for EMS personnel to review in preparation for encountering and providing medical care to a person with Ebola. The checklist provides practical and specific suggestions to ensure the agency is able to help its personnel detect possible Ebola cases, protect those personnel, and respond appropriately.

Detailed Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Checklist for Ebola Preparedness

CDC – Checklist for Healthcare Coalitions for Ebola Preparedness

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coalition-checklist-ebola-preparedness-1This checklist is intended to enhance collective preparedness and response by highlighting key areas for healthcare coalitions to review in preparation for a person under investigation (PUI) for Ebola at a coalition member’s facility. The checklist provides practical and specific suggestions to ensure healthcare coalition members are able to detect possible Ebola cases, protect employees, and respond appropriately.

Checklist for Healthcare Coalitions for Ebola Preparedness

CDC – Detailed Hospital Checklist for Ebola Preparedness

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hospital-checklist-ebola-preparedness-1 In order to enhance our collective preparedness and response efforts, this checklist highlights key areas for hospital staff – especially hospital emergency management officers, infection control practitioners, and clinical practitioners – to review in preparation for a person with Ebola arriving at a hospital for medical care. The checklist provides practical and specific suggestions to ensure your hospital is able to detect possible Ebola cases, protect your employees, and respond appropriately.

Detailed Hospital Checklist for Ebola Preparedness

CDC – Health Care Provider Preparedness Checklist for Ebola Virus Disease

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healthcare-provider-checklist-for-ebola-1 This checklist highlights some key areas health care providers to review in preparation that a person with EVD arrives for medical care. The checklist format is not intended to set forth mandatory requirements or establish national standards. In this checklist healthcare personnel (HCP) refers all persons, paid and unpaid, working in healthcare settings who have the potential for exposure to patients and/or to infectious materials, including blood and body fluids, contaminated medical supplies and equipment, and contaminated environmental surfaces. HCP include, but are not limited to, physicians, nurses, nursing assistants, therapists, technicians, students and trainees, laboratory personnel, contractual personnel, emergency medical services personnel, and persons not directly involved in patient care (e.g., house-keeping, laundry).

Health Care Provider Preparedness Checklist for Ebola Virus Disease

CDC – Health Care Facility Preparedness Checklist for Ebola Virus Disease

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healthcare-facility-checklist-for-ebola-1 This checklist highlights some key areas for health care facilities to review in preparation for a person with EVD arriving for medical care. The checklist format is not intended to set forth mandatory requirements or establish national standards. In this checklist health care personnel (HCP) refers to all persons, paid and unpaid, working in healthcare settings who have the potential for exposure to patients and/or to infectious materials, including body substances, contaminated medical supplies and equipment, contaminated environmental surfaces, or contaminated air. HCP include, but are not limited to, physicians, nurses, nursing assistants, therapists, technicians, laboratory personnel, autopsy personnel, students and trainees, contractual personnel, and persons not directly involved in patient care (e.g., house-keeping, laundry, volunteers)

Health Care Facility Preparedness Checklist for Ebola Virus Disease

Crisis Emergency Risk Communication

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Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC)

CDC Ebola Website

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) website for Ebola information.

CDC: Ebola Trifold Brochure (French)

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Brochure in French describing Ebola virus symptoms and means of transmission.

CDC: Ebolavirus Ecology (French)

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Ebolavirus-Ecology-FrenchCDC graphic in French shows the life cycle of the ebola virus. Bats are strongly implicated as both reservoirs and hosts for the ebolavirus. Of the five identified ebolavirus subtypes, four are capable of human-to-human transmission. Initial infections in humans result from contact with an infected bat or other wild animal. Strict isolation of infected patients is essential to reduce onward ebolavirus transmission. (CDC Website)

CDC: Ebolavirus Ecology

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Ebolavirus-EcologyCDC graphic shows the life cycle of the ebolavirus. Bats are strongly implicated as both reservoirs and hosts for the ebolavirus. Of the five identified ebolavirus subtypes, four are capable of human-to-human transmission. Initial infections in humans result from contact with an infected bat or other wild animal. Strict isolation of infected patients is essential to reduce onward ebolavirus transmission. (CDC Website)