AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Devise a plan now for dealing with bioterrorism. (Distributing Vaccines, Antibiotics).
A bioterrorism victim has come to your office seeking care. You and your staff have been exposed. Now who will provide care for you?
The recent bioterrorist events did not present such a risk for physicians, because anthrax is not spread by person-to-person contact. The success of any bioterrorist attack, however, heightens concerns about the risk of future attacks with transmissible agents.
Protecting physicians and other health care workers is an essential element of any national plan for dealing with bioterrorist attacks, according to Dr. Richard Hoffman, former chief medical officer and state epidemiologist with the Colorado State Department of Health, in Denver.
Without doing everything possible to ensure the survival of health care workers and their families, without giving them priority access to prophylaxis and therapies, it will be difficult to mobilize doctors and nurses m sufficient quantity to care for the victims of a bioterrorist attack, he warns.
"No one wants health care workers dying on the job. ... We can't keep the community going if health care workers stay home. We won't be able to deliver services if we are frozen by panic.
The solution to this concern is planning now for the location and disbursement of appropriate vaccines and antibiotics, according to experts interviewed for this article. Most of them were opposed to physician stockpiling of antibiotics and other bioterrorist defense items in their offices.
Dr. Lisa Miller, acting chief medical officer and state epidemiologist for the Colorado State Department of Health, said that keeping a supply of antibiotics on hand might be appropriate, as long as it is part of the local plan for dealing with bioterrorism. City biodefense planners might decide, for example, that it would be fitting to have treatments available for first responders and decide where those treatments should be kept--in the physician's office, at the public health department, or in another location.
- Public Health (HBV) Canadian Government Calls for Mandatory Testing of Health...
- Newspaper article from: Hepatitis Weekly September 7, 1998 700+ words
...doctors, dentists, and other health care workers. Some organizations are balking at...July 17, 1998). While many health care workers have been immunized against HBV, the...Medical Association (CMA), claim health care workers' privacy outweighs the potential danger...
- Public Health (HBV) Canadian Government Calls for Mandatory Testing of Health...
- Newspaper article from: Hepatitis Weekly September 7, 1998 700+ words
...doctors, dentists, and other health care workers. Some organizations are balking at...July 17, 1998). While many health care workers have been immunized against HBV, the...Medical Association (CMA), claim health care workers' privacy outweighs the potential danger...
- Fighting to Save Nurses' Lives -- ONA Supports Legislation Requiring Safe...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 3, 1999 700+ words
...devices -- putting health care workers at risk for contracting life...unnecessary threat to health care workers in Ohio public health care facilities, Ohio Senator...health care facilities. Health care workers sustain 600,000 to one million...
- Are we ready? Public health system needs upgrading.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service October 29, 2001 700+ words
...strengthening its entire public health system. Congress must be...even more on the nation's public health infrastructure to accelerate...competent, responsive health care workers. The nation's public health system must become more effective...
- First wave of Florida health-care workers gets smallpox vaccine.
- Newspaper article from: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) February 10, 2003 700+ words
...became one of Florida's first public health care workers to receive the smallpox vaccine...to 2,000 local and state public health workers. "Our plan is to...Monday were the first for public health officials, some law enforcement...
- Smallpox Vaccinations Begin for Florida Health-Care Workers.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News February 11, 2003 700+ words
...one of Florida's first public-health-care workers to receive the smallpox...2,000 local and state public-health workers. "Our plan is...Monday were the first for public-health officials, some law enforcement...
- Florida health care workers learn how to vaccinate population.
- Newspaper article from: Vaccine Weekly November 13, 2002 700+ words
...amp; NewsRx.net) -- A group of Florida public health care workers armed with two-pronged needles trained to give...the session was a stark reminder that health care workers are now on the front lines of the war on terrorism...
- Privatization curbed, but BC health-care workers still hit hard.(British...
- Magazine article from: Catholic New Times June 6, 2004 700+ words
VICTORIA -- "A victory for patients and a victory for public health care but it's not good news for public health care workers. That was the way chief negotiator Chris Allnutt of the Hospital Employees Union...
