The CDC published recommendations for how EMS providers should manage Ebola, as three cases have now been reported in the U.S.
The news has panicked some local areas. Parents are pulling their children out of schools, attending town hall meetings, and communicating their fears to their local congressmen
As EMS providers, there is the strong possibility that we will have to care for a patient with Ebola, or another communicable disease.
In this video, I review the CDC guidelines, which provide a brief overview of Ebola, the symptoms, and how it is transmitted. I also present the agency’s recommendations of performing a patient assessment, infection control, the proper use of PPE, cleaning EMS transport vehicles, and follow up/reporting measures.
We have all been taught in school how to perform all of these procedures, but how often is it correctly performed? I highly advise you to practice these procedures for all of your patients, because we never know when we will transport that “one.”
