Critical Care Medicine after the 2014-2015 Ebola Outbreak: Are We Ready if It Happens Again?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 457-459

  Chertow, Daniel S ^a   Palmore, Tara N ^a   Masur, Henry ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; PROCEDURES;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CRITICAL CARE; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS;

EID: 84959347104     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001592     Document Type: Review

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