viernes, 20 de marzo de 2020

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

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Disaster Information and Emergency Response

03/19/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Published: 3/19/2020. In response to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is providing this one-page guidance to ensure that substance use disorder treatment services are uninterrupted during this public health emergency. Under the medical emergency exception, providers make their own determinations whether a bona fide medical emergency exists for purposes of providing needed treatment to patients. (PDF)
03/18/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Australian Government. Published: 3/18/2020. This web page provides guidance on the supply of masks from the National Medical Stockpile (NMS) for General Practice (including Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services) and community pharmacy through Primary Health Networks (PHNs). It is provided to ensure consistent and transparent management of the limited supply in the second tranche. It covers, for surgical masks and P2/N95 respirators, their intended use; who is eligible to access their supply; and how to request supply. (Text)
03/18/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Society of Critical Care Medicine. Published: 3/18/2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, the number of critically ill patients is expected to surge in hospitals across the United States. This may result in non-ICU clinicians being needed to care for critically ill patients. This web page provides online education courses for healthcare professionals who may benefit from critical care training. (Video or Multimedia)
03/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 3/17/2020. The World Health Organization has developed this four-page rapid advice note, updated on March 17, 2020, to meet the need for recommendations on the safe home care for patients with suspected novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection presenting with mild symptoms, and public health measures related to management of asymptomatic contacts. It is intended for public health and infection prevention and control (IPC) professionals, health care managers, and health care workers. (PDF)
03/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Published: 3/17/2020. This four-page document answers frequently asked questions about Medicare telehealth, including how recently enacted legislation will allow the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to utilize Medicare telehealth to address the coronavirus (COVID-19) public health emergency; what services can be provided by telehealth under the emergency declaration; and if physicians and other qualified providers will be able to furnish Medicare telehealth services to beneficiaries in their homes. (PDF)
03/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 3/17/2020. This web page provides Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of Eye Protection; Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of Isolation Gowns; Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of Facemasks; and Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Respirators. (Text)
03/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Società Italiana di Anestesia, Analgesia, Rianimazione e Terapia Intensiva (SIAARTI). Published: 3/16/2020. This eight-page document discusses how the allocation of limited healthcare resources during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak can be substantially assimilated to the field of disaster medicine, for which clinical and ethical reflection has over time developed many concrete regulations for doctors and nurses engaged in difficult choices. The purpose of these recommendations is to relieve clinicians from a part of the responsibility in the decision-making process, which can be emotionally burdensome, carried out in individual cases; and make the allocation criteria for healthcare resources explicit in a condition of their own extraordinary scarcity. (PDF)
03/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] (HHS ASPR). Published: 3/16/2020. This 11-page document from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange), in response to a request for information on infectious disease/COVID-19 (coronavirus) drive-through testing, highlights resources for healthcare system emergency preparedness planners to use while preparing for and responding to infectious disease outbreaks with drive-through clinic models. (PDF)
03/15/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Published: 3/15/2020. To aggressively address COVID-19, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recognizes that conservation of critical resources such as ventilators and personal protective equipment (PPE) is essential, as well as limiting exposure of patients and staff to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This two-page document provides guidance to limit non-essential adult elective surgery and medical and surgical procedures, including all dental procedures. (PDF)
03/13/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Congressional Research Service [Library of Congress] (CRS). Published: 3/13/2020. This three-page document details how the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak may pose significant challenges for the United States’ blood supply. Topics include Industry and Blood Center Response, Blood Donation and Transfusion Safety, Food and Drug Administration Recommendations on Blood Donation, and Implications for Congress. (PDF)
03/13/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Australian Government. Published: 3/13/2020. The Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA) has developed these national guidelines for the prevention, control, and public health management of COVID-19 outbreaks in residential care facilities in Australia. (Text)
03/13/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Australian Government. Published: 3/13/2020. This document is an information sheet on work attendance and testing for health and residential aged care workers about coronavirus (COVID-19). It answers questions that include: Are there any restrictions on health and residential aged care workers attending work?; When should health and residential aged care workers be tested?; and What should health and residential aged care workers do if they have traveled overseas or been in close contact with a confirmed case? (Text)
03/12/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Australian Government. Published: 3/12/2020. This information sheet for clinicians answers questions about coronavirus (COVID-19). It includes Epidemiological FAQs, Clinical Care FAQs, and Public Health FAQs. (Text)
03/11/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 3/11/2020. This web page provides surgical mask and gown conservation strategies for use by healthcare organizations and personnel that are categorized for a range of needs and supply levels, and are intended to assist healthcare organizations as they determine operating procedures during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak. These strategies do not cover N95 respirators and are not limited to use in the care of patients infected with COVID-19. (Text)
03/11/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 3/11/2020. This web page provides answers to frequently asked questions about shortages of surgical masks and gowns, including shortages during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. Other topics include how manufacturers of personal protective equipment (PPE) who may be considering increasing availability of these products to the U.S. market can engage with the FDA; if expired masks and gowns can be used; and how to find the manufacturer-designated shelf life of a product. (Text)
03/01/2020 12:00 AM EST

Source: Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. Published: 3/2020. The aim of this eight-page brief is to support child protection practitioners to better respond to the child protection risks during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. Part 1 presents the potential child protection risks COVID-19 can pose to children. Part 2 presents programmatic options in line with the 2019 Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS), and the Guidance Note: Protection of Children During Infectious Disease Outbreaks. (PDF)
02/02/2020 12:00 AM EST

Source: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Published: 2/2/2020. This five-page document provides health guidance for U.S.-based flight and cabin crew members while in China; U.S.- and third country-based flight and cabin crew members upon arriving to the United States within 14 days of travel to, from, or within China; China-based flight and cabin crew members while in the U.S.; U.S. air carriers housing flight and cabin crews while in China; and U.S. air carriers supervising self-monitoring of flight and cabin crews who have had layovers in China. (PDF)
02/01/2020 12:00 AM EST

Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC). Published: 2/2020. This 14-page briefing note summarizes key mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) considerations in relation to the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. It details common mental health and psychosocial responses to COVID-19, overarching principles for an MHPSS response to COVID-19, globally recommended activities, and interventions for special populations. (PDF)
01/01/2020 12:00 AM EST

Source: Southern Nevada Health District. Published: 2020. This web page provides information about the Southern Nevada Point of Dispensing (POD), and the Southern Nevada Community Preparedness App. Topics are What is a POD?; Get Medicine; and Community Partners. (Text)
01/01/2020 12:00 AM EST

Source: Alameda County [CA] Public Health Department. Published: 2020. This web page provides videos about point of dispensing operations, for these topics: Overview; Leadership; Command; Operations; Logistics; Planning; Finance/Administration; Training: Operations; Training: Logistics; and Training: Operations Clinical Staff. (Video or Multimedia)

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