Bioemergency Planning. A Guide for Healthcare Facilities

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

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.

Rekha Murthy, MD.
Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai
Professor of Clinical Medicine, David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA

Angela Hewlett M.D., M.S.
Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases
Medical Director of Clinical Operations, Nebraska Biocontainment Unit
Associate Medical Director, Dept. of Infection Control and Epidemiology
Director, Infectious Diseases Outpatient Clinics
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE