Circulation 118,032 • Volume 29, No. 3 • February 2015   Issue PDF

Ebola Virus: Resources for Health Care Providers

Resources for Health Care Providers

The recent treatment in the United States of several patients who contracted Ebola has highlighted the need for an organized and prepared response from hospitals and health care workers. Numerous professional societies have provided web links (below) for information on contact/isolation precautions for Ebola including the Centers for Disease Control, World Health Organization, American College of Surgeons, American Society of Anesthesiologists, American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, the American Hospital Association, the Joint Commission and numerous others.

These links include:

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/index.html

http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/ebola/ filovirus_infection_control/en/

https://www.facs.org/ebola

http://www.asahq.org/gho/gho-press-release-list/ebola-resources

http://www.aana.com/resources2/professionalpractice/Pages/Ebola- Virus-Disease.aspx

http://www.aha.org/advocacy-issues/emergreadiness/ebola/index.shtml

http://www.jointcommission.org/issues/article.aspx?Article= aQJBGQFS4EG9dUqpeUCr%2fm5YN5H%2fscKmK%2f6x6Ov0U2A%3d