Publications

Foreign Medical Teams in support of the Ebola outbreak: a UK military model of pre-deployment training and assurance.

Authors:

Gibson C, Fletcher T, Clay K, Griffiths A

Abstract:

We discuss the training methodology developed and utilised to prepare UK military medical teams to establish an Ebola Treatment Centre in Sierra Leone. We highlight the process of identifying and mitigating nosocomial risk in the Pre-Deployment Training process, encompassing the challenges of developing, training and assuring a capability at pace, which deployed to deliver high quality clinical care to patients with Ebola Virus Disease.

Journal:

J R Army Med Corps

Year:

2016

PMID:

27231284

Hyperlink:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27231284