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
- Ports of Entry
- Presentation Within the Local Health
Care System
HOSPITALIZATION OF THE PATIENT
TRANSPORT OF THE PATIENT
MANAGEMENT OF THE PATIENT
- Patient Isolation and Protection of Hosital
Staff
- Laboratory Tests and the Collection of
Patient Specimens
- Laboratory Processing of Specimens
- Performance of Specific Laboratory Tests
- Transportation of Specimens for Diagnostic
Tests
- Treatment of the Patient
IDENTIFICATION, SURVEILLANCE AND MANAGEMENT
OF PATIENT CONTACTS
APPENDIX - PROVINCIAL RESPONSE COORDINATORS
(Provincial and Territorial Epidemiologists)
REFERENCES
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