Job aid for clinicians : how to send information to the health department about a patient under investigation (PUI) for AFM

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases.
• Description:
  1. Identify PUI for AFM: patient with onset of acute flaccid limb weakness ; 2. Contact your health department when you identify a PUI for AFM. For health department contact information, call the CDC Emergency Operations Center at 770‑488‑7100. ; 3. Health department completes AFM Patient Summary Form, compiles medical records, and sends information to CDC. Patient will be classified by national AFM experts. ; 4. After expert review, patient classification is given back to health department and relayed to clinician by health department. ; Coordinate with your health department to send information about PUIs and ship specimens to CDC. For health department contact information, call the CDC Emergency Operations Center at 770‑488‑7100. ; www.cdc.gov/acute-flaccid-myelitis ; NCIRDig-608 | 10/24/18 ; job-aid-for-clinicians-508.pdf
• Subjects:
  • Acute Disease
  • Myelitis
  • Paralysis
  • Specimen Handling
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/60301/cdc_60301_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 443.21 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9a1edaa1862e6f916f5a5ab22d1df586e1647c76383def2c4cdb72dbdd4ec0f1