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• Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland; Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland; University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana; Infectious Disease Specialists, PC, Missoula, Montana; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Uganda Peoples Defence Forces, Kampala, Uganda; Naval Medical Research Center- Frederick, Fort Detrick, Maryland; Austere Environment Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes (ACESO), Fort Detrick, Maryland; Toshima Hospital, Tokyo, Japan; Providence St. Patrick Hospital, Missoula, Montana; Department of Infectious Diseases, Nottingham University Hospitals, National Health Service Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom; Truman Medical Centers, Kansas City, Missouri; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii; Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome, Italy; Centre de Recherche, Clinique Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada; Department of Medicine, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Avera McKenna Medical Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Critical Care Resuscitation Unit, R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom; Division Infect
• Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 2015 Feb 1;92(2):233-7.

AbstractAs the outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa continues, clinical preparedness is needed in countries at risk for EVD (e.g., United States) and more fully equipped and supported clinical teams in those countries with epidemic spread of EVD in Africa. Clinical staff must approach the patient with a very deliberate focus on providing effective care while assuring personal safety. To do this, both individual health care providers and health systems must improve EVD care. Although formal guidance toward these goals exists from the World Health Organization, Medecin Sans Frontières, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other groups, some of the most critical lessons come from personal experience. In this narrative, clinicians deployed by the World Health Organization into a wide range of clinical settings in West Africa distill key, practical considerations for working safely and effectively with patients with EVD.© The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

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