FluSurge 2.0 Offers a downloadable software designed to create a spreadsheet-based model which provides hospital administrators and public health officials estimates of the surge in demand for hospital-based services during the next influenza pandemic. FluSurge estimates the number of hospitalizations and deaths of an influenza pandemic (whose length and virulence are determined by the user) and compares the number of persons hospitalized, the number of persons requiring ICU care, and the number of persons requiring ventilator support during a pandemic with existing hospital capacity. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)     Infection and environmental control Chapter 4 of the “Regional Pandemic Influenza Response Plan” provides an overview of infection prevention and environmental control guidelines that will be critical to minimizing the transmission of pandemic influenza. This chapter is broken down into information specific to health care settings and to other settings. Source: Vancouver Coastal Health     Infection control guidelines: hand washing, cleaning, disinfection and sterilization in health care Presents an overview and provides recommendations to assist in preventing the transmission of infection in health care facilities. Source: Public Health Agency of Canada     Infection control precautions for respiratory infections transmitted by large droplet/contact: infection control guidance in a non-outbreak setting, when an individual presnets with a respiratory infection Designed to assist health care workers in preventing the transmission of respiratory infections. Appendices include recommendations related to aerosol-generating respiratory procedures and reprocessing of respiratory equipment. Source: Public Health Agency of Canada     Infection prevention and control/occupational health and safety tools Chapter 7A of the “Ontario Health Plan for an Influenza Pandemic 2006” describes precautions for use against droplets and contacts in non-outbreak conditions, pandemic planning and response activities for different healthcare sectors, training and education programming for health care workers, occupational health management for health care workers, environmental cleaning and infection prevention and control guidelines for emergency operations centres. Source: Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care     Information for specific groups Provides influenza-related information for specific groups such as schools, childcare providers, parents, workplaces, legal professionals, people with HIV/AIDS, health professionals and adults with asthma. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)     Occupational health and safety measures and infection prevention and control in health care settings Chapter 7 of the “Ontario Health Plan for an Influenza Pandemic 2006” describes infection prevention and control measures the public and organizations should use and addresses occupational health and safety requirements for health care settings. Source: Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care     Pandemic influena resources Provides a list of resources which have been developed by the Ontario Safety Association for Community & Healthcare (OSACH) as well as links to government publications from Ontario, Canada, the United States and other international sources. OSACH publications available for purchase. Source: Ontario Safety Association for Community & Healthcare     Regional pandemic influenza response plan Provides access to an example of a regional pandemic response plan. Includes chapters on topics such as the health impact of pandemic influenza, surveillance, infection and environmental control, self care, emergency response, health care facilities, human resources, public health measures, vaccines and antivirals, communications, handling and disposal of the decreased, the private sector and local governments. Source: Vancouver Coastal Health     Supplement 4: infection control Explains how influenza is transmitted, and provides recommendations for infection control in healthcare settings, in schools and workplaces, and in community settings. Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services