The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is developing a training course for clinicians who are traveling to Africa to work in an Ebola Treatment Unit in response to the Ebola outbreak. The ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine has released four web-based training modules for emergency department personnel who treat patients with Ebola and other infectious diseases. The learning series, titled "Ebola ...
Online training has increased the knowledge of health care workers about effective prevention of Ebola up to 19 percent and reduced critical errors to 2.3 percent in a small cohort. These findings ...
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Cone Health held a special training session Wednesday afternoon for medical staff to re-learn how to take on and off personal protective equipment or PPE. That's the gear ...
An ambulance carrying Dr. Rick Sacra arrives at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. The National Ebola Training and Education Center will be more program than place.
Despite current recommendations, many training courses for Ebola virus disease personal protective equipment have yet to be evaluated, according to the American Journal of Infection Control. That said ...
Communication and training will be critical in how North Carolina contains and responds to any Ebola cases, state officials said Monday. “I want to be 100 percent clear: There are no known or ...
Hundreds of health care workers gathered in a large ballroom near LAX Friday to attend a mass Ebola training. Kaiser Permanente ICU nurse Peter Sidhu put on and took off protective gear in front of ...
ELMHURST, Ill. (WLS) -- A suburban hospital drilled its staff to make sure they are properly trained if a case of Ebola is diagnosed in the Chicago area. Doctors, nurses and first responders took part ...
Ebola is an infectious disease that is transmitted from person to person in the same way as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV. All are viral diseases that spread through direct contact with the blood ...
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are from their common border standpoint only 930 km apart. When a first Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak was declared on 1st August 2018 in the ...
October 19-25 is Safe Schools Week—an initiative of the Texas Education Agency and the Texas School Safety Center to “to develop robust emergency operations plans for a wide range of possible ...