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The isolation rooms at The Ottawa Hospital’s General campus are designed to stop the spread of a broad range of infectious disease. Ebola is just the latest.
• It’s one room to one patient, each one sealed off by walls, not curtains.
• Anyone entering the patient’s room must go through an anteroom. The door from the hall to the anteroom must be closed before a nurse or doctor is allowed to open the inner door to the patient’s room. The anteroom also has a large window facing the patient.
• There’s a constant flow of air inward from the hall. That stops air from the patient’s room from escaping into the rest of the hospital.
• Some rooms have a heavy lifting device in the ceiling to support patients who can’t climb onto the bed themselves. Multi-jointed arms that look a little like the Canadarm can bring equipment up to the bedside for treatment, including dialysis.
• Mostly these rooms are used for patients with tuberculosis, which runs through the city’s homeless population.
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• It’s one room to one patient, each one sealed off by walls, not curtains.
• Anyone entering the patient’s room must go through an anteroom. The door from the hall to the anteroom must be closed before a nurse or doctor is allowed to open the inner door to the patient’s room. The anteroom also has a large window facing the patient.
• There’s a constant flow of air inward from the hall. That stops air from the patient’s room from escaping into the rest of the hospital.
• Some rooms have a heavy lifting device in the ceiling to support patients who can’t climb onto the bed themselves. Multi-jointed arms that look a little like the Canadarm can bring equipment up to the bedside for treatment, including dialysis.
• Mostly these rooms are used for patients with tuberculosis, which runs through the city’s homeless population.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
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