Practical manual to design, set up and manage severe acute respiratory infections facilities
Practical manual to design, set up and manage severe acute respiratory infections facilities

Author: World Health Organization

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2024-07-25

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9240093869

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This document, with a focus on the built environment and health care facilities, intends to guide the audience in preparing for and responding to SARI pandemics caused by existing and novel pathogens. It provides technical guidance on designing, establishing, and managing health care facilities for severe acute respiratory infections (SARI), covering point of entry, treatment centers, entry to health system facilities, quarantine and community facilities, and home care and quarantine. Organized into three sections, it covers theoretical foundations, design principles, and implementation examples, including solution for new constructions, buildings repurposing, and temporary tent solutions. The technical representations of this publication are available in high resolution at: https://www.who.int/groups/techne

Framework and toolkit for infection prevention and control outbreak preparedness, readiness and response at the national level
Framework and toolkit for infection prevention and control outbreak preparedness, readiness and response at the national level

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Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2021-08-02

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 924003272X

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This document provides a practical framework of actions and toolkit for strengthening infection prevention and control (IPC) outbreak preparedness, readiness and response at the national and subnational level. The document is targeted at IPC decision-makers, including IPC focal points or others in charge of IPC at the national or subnational level, and is geared towards outbreak response incident managers, outbreak management IPC task forces and national IPC committees. Other target audiences include safety and quality leads and managers, regulatory bodies and allied organizations, including academia, national IPC professional bodies and nongovernmental organizations involved in IPC activities.

Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children
Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children

Author: World Health Organization

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9241548371

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The Pocket Book is for use by doctors nurses and other health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first level referral hospitals. This second edition is based on evidence from several WHO updated and published clinical guidelines. It is for use in both inpatient and outpatient care in small hospitals with basic laboratory facilities and essential medicines. In some settings these guidelines can be used in any facilities where sick children are admitted for inpatient care. The Pocket Book is one of a series of documents and tools that support the Integrated Managem.

Ebola and Marburg treatment centres
Ebola and Marburg treatment centres

Author: World Health Organization

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2024-07-25

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9240090088

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This manual addresses the design and construction of healthcare facilities supporting the response to Ebola and Marburg (E&M) disease outbreaks, particularly in treatment centres (TCs). It provides technical guidance, minimum requirements, practical tools and layout examples, and references for planning, designing, building, and operating healthcare facilities (TCs and others) to respond to E&M disease outbreaks in low– and middle-income contexts and resource-limited settings. The manual complements other World Health Organization (WHO) literature and contributes to the standardization of facility design and operation for safe and humane care and treatment of patients.

Acute Respiratory Infections
Acute Respiratory Infections

Author: Wei Shen Lim

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-08-02

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 0199588082

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This pocketbook is a concise companion for health care professionals who manage patients with acute lung infections.

Minimum standards and recommendations for medical teams responding to highly infectious disease outbreaks
Minimum standards and recommendations for medical teams responding to highly infectious disease outbreaks

Author: World Health Organization

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2024-06-26

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9240092889

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Infectious diseases with epidemic potential remain a significant and constant threat to the health and security of populations around the world, requiring robust health emergency preparedness, readiness and response systems and capacities at local and national levels. Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs), the EMT Initiative and its global network focus on establishing common quality standards and recommendations for medical teams to respond to health emergencies rapidly and effectively, as well as strengthening and supporting national capacities through strong collaboration and coordination. This publication defines minimum standards for the establishment of such critical capacities in a predictable and quality assured manner, and will enhance the interoperability between national, regional, and international capacities. This will contribute to the development and classification of respective specialized care teams (SCT) within the EMT framework and will provide guidance to member states, ministries of health, national and international EMTs and other key stakeholders to develop capacities and trainings, preparing for, or responding to outbreaks of highly infectious diseases.

Learning from SARS
Learning from SARS

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2004-04-26

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0309182158

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The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in late 2002 and 2003 challenged the global public health community to confront a novel epidemic that spread rapidly from its origins in southern China until it had reached more than 25 other countries within a matter of months. In addition to the number of patients infected with the SARS virus, the disease had profound economic and political repercussions in many of the affected regions. Recent reports of isolated new SARS cases and a fear that the disease could reemerge and spread have put public health officials on high alert for any indications of possible new outbreaks. This report examines the response to SARS by public health systems in individual countries, the biology of the SARS coronavirus and related coronaviruses in animals, the economic and political fallout of the SARS epidemic, quarantine law and other public health measures that apply to combating infectious diseases, and the role of international organizations and scientific cooperation in halting the spread of SARS. The report provides an illuminating survey of findings from the epidemic, along with an assessment of what might be needed in order to contain any future outbreaks of SARS or other emerging infections.

Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation in High Risk Infections, Mass Casualty and Pandemics
Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation in High Risk Infections, Mass Casualty and Pandemics

Author: Antonio M. Esquinas

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-07-04

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 3031296737

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The second edition of this book describes the clinical indications of NIV in patients hospitalized with high-risk infections as well as in the prehospital management of mass casualty incidents, including chemical or biological disasters and pandemics. In recent decades, we have learned the impact that different pandemics and mass casualty disasters can outcome in terms of health resource use, health costs and human lives. The development of respiratory failure in these patients, either infectious or non-infectious causes, has led to develop employment plans related both to invasive or noninvasive mechanical ventilation during acute respiratory failure. In this book authors evaluate a rational basis for indications, specific noninvasive mechanical ventilation indications in hospitalized patients (tuberculosis, bacterial, virus, etc.) and prehospital applications (mass casualty: chemical, biological disaster), equipment (ventilators, interfaces) and plan organization for health systems: how and when apply NIV. A critical review of already published studies is described as well as implications and how will be the future according to international expert opinions. Therefore, this updated edition represents a useful scientific reference point according to what it has been experienced in the last pandemics, with respect to the growing role that NIV has and must have in the world.

Patient Safety and Quality
Patient Safety and Quality

Author: Ronda Hughes

Publisher: Department of Health and Human Services

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13:

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"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/