Pre-hospital transportation in Western countries for Ebola patients, comparison of guidelines

Affiliations

¹ SPILF COREB Emergences (Coordination Opérationnelle du Risque Epidemique et Biologique), COREB AP-HP, LabEx IBEID Institut Pasteur, Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, SAMU 75, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France, helene.coignard@nck.aphp.fr.

H Coignard-Biehler et al. Intensive Care Med. 2015 Aug.

. 2015 Aug;41(8):1472-6.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-015-3734-0. Epub 2015 Mar 24.

¹ SPILF COREB Emergences (Coordination Opérationnelle du Risque Epidemique et Biologique), COREB AP-HP, LabEx IBEID Institut Pasteur, Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, SAMU 75, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France, helene.coignard@nck.aphp.fr.

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Considerations regarding safe transport and transfer for Ebola patients in western countries.
Fusco FM, Puro V, Ippolito G. Fusco FM, et al. Intensive Care Med. 2015 Jun;41(6):1175-6. doi: 10.1007/s00134-015-3825-y. Epub 2015 Apr 29. Intensive Care Med. 2015. PMID: 25920544 No abstract available.

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