EBOLA CONTACT TRACING FOR LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS An Overview of North Carolina’s Procedure for Ebola Contact Tracing : Guidance, Tools, and Exercises for Public Health Operation: Ready, Set, Go Presented by the N.C. Communicable Disease Branch October 2014
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EBOLA CONTACT TRACING FOR LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTSAn Overview of North Carolina’s Procedure for Ebola Contact Tracing :Guidance, Tools, and Exercises for Public Health
Operation: Ready, Set, Go
Presented by the N.C. Communicable Disease Branch October 2014
Objectives
Use this next week to Get Ready:
Acknowledge the critical role that contact tracing plays in interrupting disease transmission
Assess your capacity to conduct a scalable Ebola contact tracing event
Describe the process and locate the data collection data management tools
Prepare for onsite state and federal assistance Exercise multiple tabletop exercises for Ebola
contact tracing
Contact tracers are the people who will stop the outbreak of Ebola:
a. Identify contacts by interviewing patient or other informants
b. Interview all identified contacts to evaluate need for PH follow-up
Monitor contacts with high- or low-risk exposures for 21 days following last exposure
Release on 22nd day following last exposure
1. Identification and interviewing
2. Active monitoring
3. Discharge
Symptomatic Contacts
At ANY point in this process you may encounter contacts with symptoms of
Ebola.
You must know and be able to carry out your LHD procedure to safely respond to
this situation.
Identification and Interviewing Tools
a. Identify contacts by interviewing patient or other informants
1. Identification and interviewing
b. Interview all identified contacts to evaluate need for PH follow-up
Identification and Interviewing Tools
a. Identify contacts by interviewing patient or other informants
1. Identification and interviewing
b. Interview all identified contacts to evaluate need for PH follow-up
Identification and Interviewing Tools
a. Identify contacts by interviewing patient or other informants
1. Identification and interviewing
b. Interview all identified contacts to evaluate need for PH follow-up
Identification and Interviewing Tools
a. Identify contacts by interviewing patient or other informants
1. Identification and interviewing
b. Interview all identified contacts to evaluate need for PH follow-up
Monitoring Tools
Monitor contacts with high- or low-risk exposures for 21 days following last exposure
2. Active monitoring
Monitoring Tools
Monitor contacts with high- or low-risk exposures for 21 days following last exposure
2. Active monitoring
Monitoring Tools
Monitor contacts with high- or low-risk exposures for 21 days following last exposure
2. Active monitoring
Monitoring Tools
Monitor contacts with high- or low-risk exposures for 21 days following last exposure
2. Active monitoring
3. Discharge
Discharge
Release on 22nd day following last exposure
Ebola Contact Tracing: Phases
a. Identify contacts by interviewing patient or other informants
b. Interview all identified contacts to evaluate need for PH follow-up
Monitor contacts with high- or low-risk exposures for 21 days following last exposure
Release on 22nd day following last exposure
1. Identification and interviewing
2. Active monitoring
3. Discharge
Data Management
EID EXXX
1. Every case and potential contact receives a unique ID
Contact ID Number nNNNN-XXX
Contact ID Number 1 NNNN-XXX
3. If any contact becomes a case they also receive an NC EDSS Event Number:
2. For each case a person may have been exposed to, a contact ID Number is created:
Every potential contact will receive a minimum of two ID numbers: an EID and at least one contact ID number (a person may have multiple contact ID numbers if exposed to multiple cases). They will also have an NC EDSS event number if they become symptomatic.
Identification of persons in Ebola Contact Tracing