Articles Tagged With: bioterrorism
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One Year Later: Emergency Department Response to Biological Terrorism, Part II
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Logistics for a nightmare: CDC prepares for mass vaccinations in event of smallpox attack
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Info Tech: Will you have IT if you really need it?
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Hospital engineers should ‘air’ on the side of caution
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Reassurance: No workers harmed by nuke patients
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Critical Path Network: Collaboration key in new discharge notice rule
Beginning July 2, hospitals must begin a new process of notifying Medicare beneficiaries of their discharge appeal rights. -
SNS: National stockpile awaits pull of the trigger
The following answers to commonly asked questions about the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) were developed from information provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. -
States not prepared to distribute emergency meds in strategic stockpile
In a finding that raises the question of whether the chaotic response to Hurricane Katrina was a foreshadowing of things to come, a national assessment has determined that 35 states are not ready to distribute medical supplies from the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) even if the feds deliver the life-saving materials in a matter of hours following an attack or disaster. -
Tough call: Providing mass care with scarce resources
In the aftermath of a disaster or terrorist attack, with supplies scarce and lives in the balance, hard choices may have to be made about who can be saved and who must be designated solely for pain relief and comfort care. -
Infected terrorists could bring bugs across border
A popular plot device in fictionalized accounts of bioterrorist attacks calls for terrorist to infect themselves with an infectious agent and then disperse into populated areas as they become symptomatic. This low-tech attack method has the terrorists, like so many drug mules, carrying a pathogenic payload within their bloodstreams.