Case Study: Nebraska's Ebola isolation and decontamination approach

The Nebraska Biocontainment Unit (NBU), located at the Nebraska Medical Center, has shared its protocol for Ebola patient discharge, handling a patient's body after death and environmental disinfection in the March issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).

Discharge process for a patient treated for EVD

Patients are discharged after two consecutive blood samples taken 24-hours apart are confirmed undetectable for Ebola virus (EVD). After all surfaces are cleaned and mopped by healthcare workers, the patient dons a clean, disposable gown and takes a 10-minute chlorhexidine-gluconate shower. While showering, the path the patient walked to the shower is mopped with hospital-grade disinfectant. Then the patient dons another clean, disposable gown with shoe covers and is met by a healthcare worker in full personal protective equipment (PPE), who escorts the patient to the NBU exit corridor. Here the patient undergoes another 10-minute CHG shower before changing into clean street clothes and leaving the facility....

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