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SHEA Position Papers

  • Infectious Disease Doctors Urge Public Not to Hoard Tamiflu: Groups Say National, Institutional Stockpiles Needed to Protect Against Pandemic Flu: IDSA and SHEA are urging members of the public not to stockpile oseltamivir (Tamiflu), amid concerns about a possible shortage of the antiviral drug that is used to treat influenza. Press Release (pdf); Stockpiling Statement (pdf)
  • Influenza Vaccination of Healthcare Workers: A guidance for allocation of influenza vaccine to healthcare workers during times of vaccine shortage and recommendations for improving vaccination of healthcare workers via a multifaceted program.  Paper (pdf)

    • Federal

  • White House National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan; comments from the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC; comments by CDC Director
  • Pandemic Flu.gov - Information about Influenza Pandemics 
  • Subcommittee on Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Meeting Report - Hospital Preparedness for Pandemic Influenza
  • OSHA's Guidance on Preparing Workplaces for Influenza Pandemic

  • AHRQ – Providing Mass Medical Care with Scarce Resources: A Community Planning Guide: A guide (available in PDF format on the website) written by experts at DHHS and AHRQ to provide community planners and planners at institutional, state, and federal levels with information on planning and responding to mass casualty events (MCE).

  • OSHA Pandemic Flu Guidance for Healthcare Workers: The guidance covers a range of healthcare settings and serves as a follow-up to guidelines released all types of workplaces.

  • HHS guide to help communities retool their health-related call centers into systems for meeting the needs of the public in homes or shelters during emergencies such as a pandemic or bioterrorist attack. Published by the HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the 224-page guide is aimed at boosting the capabilities of poison-control centers, nurse advice lines, drug information centers, and health agency hotlines. It focuses on four main scenarios: anthrax attacks, pandemic influenza, plague, and food contamination. article

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    Local

     

  • NGA Preparing for a Pandemic Influenza: A Primer for Governors & Senior State Officials
  • NACCHO Local Health Department Guide to Pandemic Influenza Planning
  • San Francisco Department of Public Health: Communicable Pandemic Influenza Infection Control Table Top Exercise. 100% of San Francisco’s hospitals participated in the exercise.  Link includes the After Action Report with lessons learned, the power point presentation of the scenario, and other details of the exercise.
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    CDC

  • Current Situation: summary, human H5N1 cases, animal H5N1 cases, assessment of current situation, bird import ban, travel, and CDC response
  • Avian Influenza A Viruses 
  • Birds  
  • Estimating Potential Impact of an Influenza Pandemic Using 1968 and 1918 Type Scenarios (MMWR)
  • FluSurge: a spreadsheet-based model providing hospital administrators and public health officials estimates of the surge in demand for hospital-based services during an influenza pandemic 
  • Health Professionals (resources) 
  • Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities Caring for Patients with Known or Suspected Avian Influenza (interim recommendations) 
  • Infection in Humans (avian influenza) 
  • Key Facts About Avian Influenza and Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus
  • Past Avain Influenza Outbreaks
  • Prevention and Control of Influenza: MMWR 2006 Recommendations 
  • Transmission of Influenza A Viruses Between Animals and People
  • Travelers
  • Vaccines (avian influenza)
  • WHO Procedures for Obtaining Release of H5N1 Sequences to the Public Domain

    • Other Resources

  • A report was released in September 07 by an ad hoc IOM committee on the study of PPE for healthcare workers during an influenza pandemic.  SHEA members Trish Perl, MD, MSc, Leonard Mermel, DO, SCm, Keith Woeltje, MD, PhD, and David Calfee, MD testified to the committee.  Dr. Perl participated on the committee and Dr. Mermel served as a reviewer of the document.  slide show; executive summary
  • IDSA - Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Principles for US Action 
  • IOM - Modeling Community Containment for Pandemic Influenza: A Letter Report: a report detailing computer models and analyses of past flu outbreaks and the role of community-wide intervention.  free registration required
  • PNAS - Mitigation strategies for pandemic influenza in the US 
  • Nature - Strategies for mitigating an influenza pandemic
  • Committee for the Assessment of the NIOSH Head-and Face Anthropometric Survey of the US Respirator Users - order book

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    Conferences

    Seasonal & Pandemic Influenza 2007, Washington, DC (2/1-2/2)
    POWERPoint Presentations:

    Introduction
    Global Perspective and Animal Component
    Molecular Characterization
    Science and Public Health
    Preparedness Planning 2007
    Planning - Where Are We?
    Importance of Immunization
    Pediatric Influenza
    Dosage for Oseltamivir
    Pathogenesis and Treatment of H5N1
    Addressing an International Pandemic
    Antivirals for Influenza
    Canadian Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
    Clinical Trials with H5N1 Vaccine
    French Strategy for Pandemic Preparedness
    Indonesian Response Plan

    Pandemic Preparedness
    Community Strategy for Pandemic
    Healthcare Facility Surge Capacity
    Hong Kong Hospital Pandemic Plan
    IDSA Practice Guidelines
    Key Issues for Businesses
    Mitigating the Impact and Maintaining Air Service
    Modes of Spread of Influenza
    Pathogenesis and Transmissibility
    State of the States' Preparedness
    Sustaining Progress in Pandemic Planning
    Economic Consequences of Bird Flu
    State Epidemiologists' Perspective
    Update on Influenza in the US
    Lessons Learned from SARS in Canada

    Southeastern Center for Emerging Biologic Threats - Critical Issues in Responding to Pandemic Influenza (2/10/05)

    Seasonal & Pandemic Influenza 2006: At the Crossroads…A Global Opportunity, Washington, DC (1/31-2/2).  SHEA, with CDC, IDSA, and NIAID cosponsored a program focused on seasonal and pandemic flu preparation and communication.  The Companion Slide Set was created by the Scientific Committee for healthcare providers to use in talks that they are giving on the issue.  The Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza Monograph was created as an accompaniment to the slides.

    News
  • Immunization Action Coalition - links from DHHS, the American Academy of Family Physicians, WHO, CDC
  • ProMed
  • SHEA Overview of the President's Pandemic Flu Strategy 
  • WebMD - US preparedness plan and the clinician's role  
  • World Bank - Discussion on Avian Flu with Milan Brahmbhatt, World Bank lead economist for East Asia and the Pacific (12/14/05) 

    • Updates

    Register for CDC's Pandemic Flu Updates Listserve


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