Public Health Emergency Planning for Children in Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Disasters
In: Biosecurity and bioterrorism: biodefense strategy, practice and science, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 201-207
ISSN: 1557-850X
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In: Biosecurity and bioterrorism: biodefense strategy, practice and science, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 201-207
ISSN: 1557-850X
In: Psychological services, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 293-297
ISSN: 1939-148X
In: Health security, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 118-122
ISSN: 2326-5108
A timely and effective response to public health threats requires a broad-reaching infrastructure. Children's hospitals are focused on evaluating and managing some of the most vulnerable patients and thus have unique preparedness and response planning needs. A virtual forum was established specifically for children's hospitals during the 2014–15 Ebola outbreak, and it demonstrated the importance and utility of connecting these specialty hospitals to discuss their shared concerns. Developing a successful children's hospital response network could build the national infrastructure for addressing children's needs in preparedness and response and for enhancing preparedness and response to high-consequence pathogens. Using the Laboratory Response Network and tiered-hospital network as models, a network of children's hospitals could work together, and with government and nongovernment partners, to establish and refine best practices for treating children with pathogens of public health concern. This network could more evenly distribute hospital readiness and tertiary pediatric patient care capabilities for highly infectious diseases across the country, thus reducing the need to transport pediatric patients across the country and increasing the national capacity to care for children infected with high-consequence pathogens.
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