Anesthetic Implications of Ebola Patient Management: A Review of the Literature and Policies

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 810-821

  Missair, Andres ^a   Marino, Michael J ^a   Vu, Catherine N ^a   Gutierrez, Juan ^a   Missair, Alfredo ^b   Osman, Brian ^c   Gebhard, Ralf E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

AIRWAY PRESSURE; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIST; BODY FLUID; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LARYNGOSCOPE; MECHANICAL VENTILATOR; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHLEBOTOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATION CONTROL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STETHOSCOPE; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS PARTICLE; ANIMAL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EBOLAVIRUS; HEALTH POLICY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84940114761     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000573     Document Type: Review

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