Expert Commentary

VIDEO: Emory’s medical director offers advice on managing an Ebola patient

Publish date: October 10, 2014
Author(s):
Heidi Splete

 

AT ID WEEK 2014

PHILADELPHIA – How would your hospital handle an Ebola patient? Ask Dr. Bruce Ribner.

At ID Week 2014 in Philadelphia, Dr. Ribner, medical director of Emory University Hospital’s serious communicable diseases unit in Atlanta, gave a detailed account of his hospital’s management of the first two American patients treated at Emory after contracting the disease while working in Africa.

hsplete@frontlinemedcom.com

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