Ebola: Clinical Management of Ebola Virus Disease (WHO)

What Will You Learn?

• By the end of this training course, participants should be able to:
• describe screening of patients to identify suspect cases and safely transfer them for ongoing care to an ETC;
• understand infection prevention and control strategies: standard and contract precautions and use of personal protective equipment for various contexts;
• understand safe waste management and how to perform a safe and dignified burial;
• understand how to collect patient samples for Ebola and other laboratory tests;
• understand the various Ebola tests available and the importance of other routine laboratory tests for patient management;
• understand the structure, functioning, and procedures of an ETC;
• understand the main components of clinical management of patients with EVD; and
• describe the WHO framework for using investigational therapeutic agents in an outbreak.