One-half dozen personnel from Children’s National in Washington, D.C., including infectious disease experts, critical care nurses and laboratory personnel traveled to New York in mid-August for an interactive workshop sponsored by the National Ebola Training and Education Center. They covered how to correctly don and doff protective gear; safely collect, handle and process specimens; and discuss the special circumstances that arise when caring for pediatric patients, among other topics.
Optimizing our institutional Ebola response plan and procedures