Isolation Room Talking Points
- Move everyone away from hospitals where the most vulnerable are
- Testing tents at hospitals bad idea
- Medical workers reenter hospital
- Contact in parking lots with others going into hospital
- Testing tents at hospitals bad idea
- Eliminate large quantities of patients and healthcare workers in one location
- Prevents large infection if something goes wrong
- Mistake at Javits Convention Center could infect 320 workers
- Mistake at 40 bed gym hospital could infect 10 to 15 workers
- Less to manage for healthcare workers so focus can be on patients
- Prevents large infection if something goes wrong
- Gymnasiums are community based
- Have bathrooms and most showers
- Large open areas usually with own HVAC system
- Patients have less distance to travel
- Healthcare workers have less distance to travel
- Other community based medical professionals provide support (dentists, hygienists, etc)
- Community can help provide support to workers if needed
- Compact space for multiple isolation rooms in small footprint
- 40 rooms on a gym floor
- Gym is very open eliminating contamination on surfaces hard to clean like in hotel rooms, dorm rooms, cruise ship, etc.
- Mounted to plywood or subfloor
- Construct elevated platform for more height (6x12 frame add 11 ½”)
- Healthcare workers do not have to enter isolation room
- Patient wheeled in and out of isolation room as needed
- Wheeled in head-first placing respiratory area 6’ from access opening
- Patient can be on cot if capable of sitting up, standing, etc
- Large flat aluminum surfaces for easy cleaning.
- Top is removable so all interior surfaces can be easily disinfected
- Test have shown other SARS viruses only lasts 2 to 8 hours on aluminum
- Insulated walls and roof to maintain humidity or higher temperature inside room
- Humidifier to help patient with breathing
- Small space heater to keep temperature slightly higher than gymnasium
- Humid or warm air will rise and exit through louvres at top of room
- Outside air enter from bottom space of access door creating negative pressure room
- Use HEPA filter where air is exiting to clean air going into gymnasium
- Louvers angled away from patient to eliminate droplets from exiting through louver
- Insulation mold and mildew resistant