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Contra Costa Emergency Medical Services > EMS Infectious Disease Precautions and Exposure Management
EMS Infectious Disease Precautions and Exposure Management
GENERAL
All EMS Provider Agencies are required to establish and maintain a written
exposure plan in compliance to federal and state law. In the event of an infectious
disease exposure, complete an EMS-6 form and submit to their agency's Infectious
Control Officer and Contra Costa Public Health at fax (925) 313-6465.
EMS Policy #22: Infectious Disease Precautions and Exposure Management for EMS Personnel (PDF, 4pp.)) Contra Costa Health Services-Public Health EMS-6 (3/07): Notification of Possible Communicable Disease Exposure Form (PDF, 1pp.) Preventing Bloodborne Exposures - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (PDF, 4pp.) Healthcare Surge Plan (PDF, 14pp.) Pertussis (Whooping Cough) H1N1 Influenza (Swine Flu) SARS Guidelines for EMS Responders - CDC HIV Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) or Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Meningococcal Disease Tuberculosis MMWR, December 16, 2005 Need Help with PDF files?Viewing PDF files requires a free program called Adobe Acrobat Reader [download Acrobat]. If you do not wish to or cannot run Acrobat Reader, you may still view PDF files by using Adobe's [PDF to text conversion].
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