Bioemergency Planning, 1st ed. 2018 A Guide for Healthcare Facilities

This text gathers the weaknesses revealed during recent infections outbreaks and organizes them into a guide for combating the trends in emerging infections as they relate to hospital preparedness.  As the first book to exclusively explore infectious emergencies, the text begins by reviewing potential pathogens and the clinical issues that may threaten hospital safety before delving into the best operational guidelines for commanding a staff under extreme circumstances, including incident command, communication, transport, maintenance, and a myriad of other topics that can remain manageable with proper protocol. Written by experts in the field, this text is the only one that offers the most effective clinical responses to a crisis at every level of care, including special population, laboratory techniques, care of the deceased, behavioral support, and medical documentation.  The text concludes by focusing on the reality of care by introducing true examples from the field and the lessons gained from these cases.

Bioemergency Planning is a vital resource for infectious disease specialists, hospitalists, epidemiologists, internal medicine physicians, nurses, social workers, public health officials, and all medical professionals who need to be prepared to respond to an infection outbreak.

Chapter 1        Communicable Diseases and Emerging Pathogens: The Past, Present, and Future                           of High-Level Containment Care

                        Theodore J. Cieslak, Jocelyn J. Herstein, Mark G. Kortepeter

Chapter 2        Designing Medical Facilities to Care for Patients with Highly Hazardous                                        Communicable Diseases

                        Mark G. Kortepeter, Elena H. Kwon, Theodore J. Cieslak

Chapter 3        Administrative Considerations When Preparing For Bioemergencies

                        John J. Maher, Syra Sikandar Madad, Nicholas V. Cagliuso, Sr.

Chapter 4        Communications in Times of Crisis: A Narrative

                        Taylor Wilson

Chapter 5        Strategies for Waste Management and Decontamination

                        John J. Lowe and Katelyn Jelden

Chapter 6        Laboratory Processing of Specimens

                        Peter C. Iwen, Roxanne Alter, Vicki L. Herrera, Anthony R. Sambol, Karen L.                              Stiles, Steven H. Hinrichs

Chapter 7        Staffing

                        Mallory Reimers, Jordan A. Hughes, Brian T. Garibaldi

Chapter 8        Transportation of Patients in a Bioemergency

                        Lekshmi Kumar and Alexander P. Isakov

Chapter 9        Special Populations: Labor and Delivery

                        John P. Horton

Chapter 10      Biocontainment Principles for Pediatric Patients

                        Amy S. Arrington

Chapter 11      Care of Ebola Infected Human Remains

                        Kate Boulter and Angela Vasa

Chapter 12      Evaluation of the Person Under Investigation

                        Paul D. Biddinger and Erica S. Shenoy

Chapter 13      Maintenance of Preparedness

                        Timo Wolf

Chapter 14      Personal Protective Equipment

                        Jill S. Morgan

Chapter 15      Human Subjects Research in Bioemergencies

                        Lauren M. Sauer, Jared D. Evans, Kathryn Shaw-Saliba, Bruce Gordon,                                         Christopher J. Kratochvil

Chapter 16      Behavioral Health Support for Patients, Families and Healthcare Workers

                        David Cates, Paula G. Gomes, Arthur M. Krasilovsky