Clinical management of patients with viral haemorrhagic fever: A pocket guide for front-line health workers
Interim emergency guidance for country adaptation
2 January 2016
| Guideline
Overview
This pocket guide provides strong support for the practical application of key lifesaving interventions that are feasible in an ETU as well as interventions that relieve pain and other symptoms. Providing good supportive care while in personal protective equipment (PPE), which limits the time for patient care and can impair vision and dexterity, is a challenge. Practical approaches to improving the volume of fluids administered are discussed using ORS, IV and intraosseous (IO) fluids.
WHO Team
Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa (2014-2015) IHR Emergency Committee,
Emergency Response (WRE),
Medical Devices and Diagnostics (MDD)
Editors
World Health Organization
Number of pages
191
Reference numbers
ISBN: 978 92 4 154960 8
Copyright
World Health Organization, 2016. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0