| Summary: | These guidelines recognize that health workers must be protected at all times, not only because they are needed to deliver care and save lives during epidemics, but because they may unwittingly transmit pathogens if they are not properly protected. These guidelines aim to provide the knowledge and advice needed to protect health workers against filovirus infections (Ebola, Marburg, etc.). Effective protection requires adequate equipment and practices. The West African Ebola outbreak taught public health planners important lessons about how best to protect those providing clinical care. These lessons - of what works, what does not, what is most practical and effective - have been collated, assessed by experts in clinical care and infection control and form the basis for these recommendations. This is an important step forward in evidence-based protection and safety for health care delivery during outbreaks
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| Item Description: | "These guidelines were produced by the World Health Organization Department of Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases under the coordination of Constanza Vallenas and Nahoko Shindo. They were written by Saskia den Boon (contractor), Ying Ling Lin, Elizabeth Mathai, Yukiko Nakatani, Nahoko Shindo, Constanza Vallenas, and Adriana Velazquez. The following WHO staff members also made contributions: Benedetta Allegranzi, Jean-Christophe Aze, Yolanda Bayugo, Sophie Boisson, Sylvie Briand, Caroline Cross, Irene Dolan, Sergey Eremin, Pierre Formenty, Robert Fowler, Ivan Ivanov, François Jorda, Edward Kelley, Jean-Bosco Ndihokubwayo, Junko Okumura, Carmem Pessoa-Silvia, Dina Pfeiffer, Charlotte Rasmussen, Andreas Reis, Jose Rovira Vilaplana, Lara Schwarz, Mikiko Senga and Rebekah Thomas Bosco. Susan L Norris provided valuable guidance on the WHO process of rapid guideline development."--Page vii |
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