Bioemergency Planning

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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

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

   Pages 1-19

3. Designing Medical Facilities to Care for Patients with Highly Hazardous Communicable Diseases

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

   Pages 21-34

4. Administrative Considerations When Preparing for Bioemergencies

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

   Pages 35-43

5. Communications in Times of Crisis: A Narrative

   • Taylor Wilson

   Pages 45-52

6. Strategies for Waste Management and Decontamination

   • John J. Lowe, Katelyn Jelden

   Pages 53-66

7. Laboratory Processing of Specimens

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

   Pages 67-81

8. Staffing

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

   Pages 83-93

9. Transportation of Patients in a Bioemergency

   • Lekshmi Kumar, Alexander P. Isakov

   Pages 95-105

10. Special Populations: Labor and Delivery

    • John P. Horton

    Pages 107-115

11. Biocontainment Principles for Pediatric Patients

    • Amy S. Arrington

    Pages 117-128

12. Care of Ebola-Infected Human Remains

    • Kate Boulter, Angela Vasa

    Pages 129-142

13. Evaluation of the Person Under Investigation

    • Paul D. Biddinger, Erica S. Shenoy

    Pages 143-156

14. Maintenance of Preparedness

    • Timo Wolf

    Pages 157-168

15. Personal Protective Equipment

    • Jill S. Morgan

    Pages 169-182

16. Human Subjects Research in Bioemergencies

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

    Pages 183-194

17. Behavioral Health Support for Patients, Families, and Healthcare Workers

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

    Pages 195-214

18. Back Matter

    Pages 215-221

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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.

• Staffing
• Infection control
• Infection prevention
• Communicable diseases
• Hospital epidemiology
• infectious diseases

“The book is written for those who work in healthcare facilities which, by definition, includes not only those who are involved in direct patient care, such as physicians and nurses, but also other essential personnel, such as administrative, building and engineering, environmental support, and public relations staff. … This book should serve not only as a guide for healthcare facilities, small or large, on the next bioemergency threat … .” (Farrin Manian, Doody's Book Reviews, February, 2019)

• Division of Infectious Diseases, Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA

  Angela Hewlett

• Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medical Affairs, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA

  A. Rekha K. Murthy

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