OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — When the Nebraska Medical Center began treating patients with the deadly Ebola virus this fall, experts had to figure out how to safely conduct lab tests and handle samples.

A paper outlining some of the lessons learned in the lab has been published, so other hospitals can learn from the experience here in Omaha.

Pete Iwen, director of the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory, led the team of University of Nebraska Medical Center experts who wrote the paper.

Iwen says that when the first Ebola patient arrived in September, some of the tests doctors wanted couldn’t be performed safely with existing equipment, so the lab developed alternatives.

Iwen says the American Journal of Clinical Pathology fast-tracked the approval of the paper, so other labs would have the advice available.