EMS Biosafety Transport for Operators
This eight-hour program of instruction is led by Dr. Alex Isakov, an emergency medicine and EMS physician, who is the medical director for the Emory-Grady EMS Biosafety Transport Program. The target audience for the course is EMS providers of all types/levels/certifications. Many of the learning modules will also be of value for other clinical personnel who may be exposed to patients with serious communicable diseases. The course aims to increase understanding about standard and transmission-based infection control practices and provides education about serious communicable diseases like Ebola Virus Disease, Smallpox, SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), MERS (Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome), novel influenza viruses, like H7N9, and seasonal as well as pandemic influenza.