Volume: 23S1 - January 1997

Canadian Contingency Plan for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers and Other Related Diseases

Table of Contents

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

OBJECTIVE

RATIONALE

THE RISK TO CANADA

A SUSPECTED CASE OF IMPORTED UNUSUAL OR EMERGING COMMUNICABLE DISEASE

LINES OF COMMUNICATION FOR SUSPECTED OR CONFIRMED CASES

Site of Case Identification

1. Ports of Entry
2. Presentation Within the Local Health Care System

HOSPITALIZATION OF THE PATIENT

TRANSPORT OF THE PATIENT

MANAGEMENT OF THE PATIENT

1. Patient Isolation and Protection of Hosital Staff
2. Laboratory Tests and the Collection of Patient Specimens
3. Laboratory Processing of Specimens
4. Performance of Specific Laboratory Tests
5. Transportation of Specimens for Diagnostic Tests
6. Treatment of the Patient

IDENTIFICATION, SURVEILLANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF PATIENT CONTACTS

• Post-exposure Prophylaxis

APPENDIX - PROVINCIAL RESPONSE COORDINATORS
(Provincial and Territorial Epidemiologists)

REFERENCES

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