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New and featured on these pages

• Planning tool for primary care offices
• Report from 2009 Medical Surge Capacity workshops
• Trauma: terrorism vs. motor-vehicle collisions
• National Health Security Strategy
• Identifying and training critical hospital staff
• Hospital evacuation and sheltering
• Updated PIO references
• Hospital preparedness partnership
• National ventilator survey
• CMS: EMTALA disaster requirements and options
• Modeling disaster response in public health and medicine
• Hospital emergency preparedness challenges
• Influences on hospital emergency preparedness and response
• Measuring emergency preparedness
• Science of MCI/MCE management
• Emergency legal preparedness
• Predicting anthrax surge
• Model inter-hospital MOU for disasters
• Toward consensus on pediatric disaster-care standards?
• Hospital guidelines for pediatrics disaster preparedness
• Pediatric disaster tabletop exercise toolkit for hospitals
• Effect of storage on N95 masks
• Electronic mass casualty scenarios
• Surgical safety checklist (good model for some disaster procedures...)
• Medical management of toxicological MCEs
• Exercise documentation and management: meeting the standard?
• Disaster planning checklist for healthcare CFOs
• Post-disaster analysis of hospital response plans: lessons learned?
• HIPAA in disasters
• Critical tasks for initial incident assessment
• Is your hospital's pharmacy prepared?

H1N1

• Planning tool for primary care offices
• Mandatory vaccination for HCW: policy to practice
• State-mandated H1N1 vaccine for HCW?
• HC institutions' H1N1 response: experiences, obstacles, perceived needs
• Antiviral preparedness and HCW
• Hospital PPE cost-effectiveness
• Advisory Board H1N1 triage and surge resources
• H1N1 after-action workshop
• Updated PPE guidance for HCW

• Q&A

• Is non-invasive ventilation high-risk?
• Hospitalized H1N1 patients
• H1N1 and critical care services
• Critical H1N1 patients (set of papers)
• Surgical masks vs. N95s for HCW
• Protecting HCW against H1N1
• Hospitals and H1N1
• Selected H1N1 legal issues
• IOM guidelines on respiratory PPE for HCWs
• Nurses' contacts and potential for disease transmission
• H1N1 and US ICU capacity
• Pandemic preparedness information clearinghouse
• ACEP strategic plan for ED management of H1N1 outbreaks
• H1N1 flu among HCWs (June 2009)
• Hedging against antiviral resistance in a pandemic?
• Antiviral resistance and implications for stockpiling and use
• Hospital preparedness for infectious disease
• Guidance for pandemic antiviral stockpiling and use
• Respirator fit-testing: how well does it protect HCWs?
• Hospital PPE in a pandemic
• Pandemic allocation considerations
• Pandemic preparedness resources from American Health Lawyers Assn

NIMS and HICS implementation for hospitals

• Hospital preparedness instruments and NIMS compliance
• NIMS Resource Center (FEMA)
• Updated NIMS document (link to 3.8-MB core document) (12/18/08)

• What's new (12/18/08)

• 2007-2009 NIMS compliance crosswalk for healthcare organizations (11/08)
• NIMS Alert: FY08-09 NIMS compliance for healthcare organizations (updated 6/10/08)
• FY08-09 NIMS implementation objectives for healthcare organization: 14 steps (6/10/08)
• NIMS Alert (9/12/06)
• Summary (9/12/06)
• Implementation activities: 17 steps (9/12/06)
• Incident Command classes for hospitals and healthcare systems (12/28/06)
• NIMS implementation FAQs (updated 4/24/07)
• IS-700.A - National Incident Management System
• IS-800.B - National Response Framework

Public health and medical job credentialing in NIMS
NIMS Alert (12/4/07)
Adopted titles and credentials (March 2008)

HICS materials available for a hospitals large and small
The California EMS Authority hosts resources for the recently revised Hospital Incident Command System (HICS). Materials include a guidebook and glossary, FAQs, teaching materials, implementation guidance and resources, and an e-mail address for questions. The online HICS Center has teaching materials and a variety of other resources; many require (free) site registration.

The Center for Biopreparedness Education (Creighton Univ. and Univ. of Nebraska Medical Ctrs) has adapted and posted HICS Job Action Sheets for Small and Rural Hospitals.
 

Public Information Officer reference list

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• Report from 2009 Medical Surge Capacity workshops (January 2010)
• Advisory Board triage and surge resources
• Extending and rationing pediatric care in public health emergencies (September 2009)
• CMS: EMTALA disaster requirements and options (August 2009)
• Escalating tiers for surge capacity (April 2009)
• "Reverse triage" to generate surge capacity (April 2009)
• Community health centers as preparedness resources (January 2009)
• Dwindling empty beds and surge capacity (December 2008)
• Alternative Medical Treatment Site exercise website - Florida (July 2008)
• GAO report on states' need for guidance on allocation of scarce medical resources (June 2008)
• Chest journal: Definitive Care for the Critically Ill During a Disaster (May 2008)
      Summary of suggestions
      Current capabilities and limitations
      Framework for optimizing critical care
      Medical resources or critical care surge capacity
      Allocating scarce resources
• Guidance for adapting standards of care under extreme conditions (March 2008)
• Allocation of ventilators in a public health disaster (March 2008)
• Mass medical care during a pandemic: guide and toolkits (May-December 2007)
• Statewide surge study (September 2007)
• Ventilator allocation during large-scale disasters (June 2007)
• Hospital pharmacy preparedness (June 2007)
• Emergency credentialing concept (May 2007)
• Surge capacity in terrorist bombings (April 2007)
• Ventilator allocation during a pandemic (March 2007)
• Triage concepts, triage values (March 2007)
• Pandemic triage recommendations (November 2006)
• Annual bed statistics may be misleading (October 2006)
• PPV options during mass illness (June 2006)
• ICU expansion during epidemic (June 2006)
• Guidelines for ventilator acquisition to meet surge demands (May 2006)
• Triage for mechanical ventilation during an epidemic (February 2006)

From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality:
NOTE: If you are aware of ways in which AHRQ research, products, or tools are being used to influence policies, clinical practice, or affect patient outcomes, please contact jane.steele@ahrq.hhs.gov.

• Preparedness webcasts
• Disaster alternate care facilities: report and interactive tools (October 2009)
• Disaster alternate care facility selection tool (September 2009)
• Pediatric preparedness resources for public health emergencies (March 2009)
• Interactive mass evacuation transportation model (December 2008)
• Interactive hospital surge model (September 2008)
• Focused preparedness tool for hospital exercises (August 2008)
• Home health care during a pandemic (July 2008)
• Becoming a high reliability organization (February 2008)
• Emergency preparedness atlas: US nursing home and hospital facilities (July 2007)
• Project XTREME: DVD for cross-training respiratory extenders (April 2007)
• Internal CBRNE preparedness questionnaire (April 2007)
• Guidelines for mass medical care with scarce resources (February 2007)

Contact TVF&R's Emergency Manager
Email: Jeff Rubin
Phone: (503) 259-1199