Emergency Triage of Highly Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism

Emergency medical services are a key element in health systems for the evaluation and treatment of patients exposed to highly infectious diseases or bioterrorism agents. Triage and early identification at any point of care can have a significant impact on the prevention and management of these disea...

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Autores principales: Bezek, Sarah, Jaung, Michael, Mackey, Joy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7120388/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33803-9_3
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description Emergency medical services are a key element in health systems for the evaluation and treatment of patients exposed to highly infectious diseases or bioterrorism agents. Triage and early identification at any point of care can have a significant impact on the prevention and management of these diseases. This chapter reviews triage practices, including early isolation and decontamination, of highly infectious diseases and bioterrorism agents at different health system levels.
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spelling pubmed-71203882020-04-06 Emergency Triage of Highly Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism Bezek, Sarah Jaung, Michael Mackey, Joy Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Article Emergency medical services are a key element in health systems for the evaluation and treatment of patients exposed to highly infectious diseases or bioterrorism agents. Triage and early identification at any point of care can have a significant impact on the prevention and management of these diseases. This chapter reviews triage practices, including early isolation and decontamination, of highly infectious diseases and bioterrorism agents at different health system levels. 2020-01-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7120388/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33803-9_3 Text en © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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