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Bioterrorism Newsletter February 20, 2004
Vice President Indiana Hospital & Health Association (317) 423-7729
Still Code Yellow
Topics
Surge Capacity and Psychological Aspects of Bioterrorism Events
"Psychological Aspects of Bioterrorism" March 4, 2004, 9:00 am - 10:00 am IU Department of Public Health, RG 4147 Regenstrief Health Center, 1050 Wishard Blvd. IUPUI Campus Parking available in the Wilson Street Parking Garage To register your local site, please visit: http://www.informz.net/ualbany-sph/event.asp?eid=251
For additional information please visit: www.ualbanycphp.org, email cphp@uamail.albany.edu or phone 518-486-7921. To order a free videotape contact: Margaret Watson, Administrative Coordinator, Center for Public Health Preparedness at mwatson@albany.edu or phone: 518-402-0330
See Description Below: with Robert J. Ursano, MD This program will address the fact that communities and individuals react to the stress of terror, as they do to natural events. Dr. Ursano, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine will discuss what public and private health professionals need to consider when dealing with the public's emotional and psychological health in times of stress and emergency.
Objectives: At the conclusion of the presentation, the participants will be able to:
1. Identify the three primary agencies/systems involved in protecting the public's health before, during and after a terrorist event 2. List at least three examples of trauma-related disorders 3. Describe at least three ways in which public health professionals can assist in interventions following disasters
Who Should Attend: National audience of state and local public health professionals, appropriate representatives from regional health departments, health-care facilities, emergency department workers, county executive offices and emergency management offices, public health partners (e.g., law enforcement, EMS, media representatives, etc) selected by each local health region with whom they are likely to interact around BT issues.
Avian Influenza - Bird Flu
The AHA hosted a call on Avian Influenza that you might find interesting as we prepare for the second wave. This Word document is the presentation with a Q&A session.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published recommendations to help U.S. health departments, hospitals and clinicians identify patients who could be infected with avian influenza A, or bird flu, and take appropriate infection control precautions. The CDC advised U.S. hospitals to test for the virus in patients who have radiographically confirmed pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome or other severe respiratory illness and have traveled to a country with documented cases of the virus in humans or poultry within 10 days of symptom onset. Testing for the virus also should be considered in patients with a temperature greater than 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit; a cough, sore throat or shortness of breath; and contact with poultry or domestic birds or a known or suspected bird flu patient from a country affected by the virus.
The CDC recommends using the same infection control precautions for confirmed or suspected bird flu patients as for severe acute respiratory syndrome, even though person-to-person transmission of bird flu is believed to be rare. There have been no known cases of the virus in U.S. birds or humans. However, 23 confirmed human cases of bird flu, including 18 deaths, and roughly 100 suspected cases have been reported in Thailand and Vietnam. The virus also has been reported in birds in six other Asian countries. The CDC recommendations are published at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr.
Some Great Education Resources you should download and Distribute within your Hospital
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FREE Education: "Surge Capacity" a Web-assisted audio on 3-2-04 that will
be archived by AHRQ and a satellite program on "Psychological Aspects of
Bioterrorism" on 3-4-03. Tapes are available.
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Haute, IN 47801