Intensive Care Med (2015) 41:118–119 DOI 10.1007/s00134-014-3562-7
Pierre Pasquier Ce´cile Ficko Audrey Me´rens Cle´ment Dubost
IMAGING IN INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE
Preparing an ICU room to welcome a critically ill patient with Ebola virus disease
Received: 10 November 2014 Accepted: 10 November 2014 Published online: 28 November 2014 Ó Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg and ESICM 2014 P. Pasquier ()) C. Dubost Intensive Care Unit, Be´gin Military Teaching Hospital, Saint-Mande´, France e-mail: [email protected] P. Pasquier C. Ficko A. Me´rens C. Dubost Be´gin Ebola Teamwork, Be´gin Military Teaching Hospital, Saint-Mande´, France
An Ebola virus disease–intensive care unit (EVD-ICU) room is fully equipped for safe and suitable management of an EVD patient requiring intensive care. the EV-ICU room is preceded by an airlock and kept in negative air pressure, with an increasing pressure gradient from airlock to the room. Beside the classical equipment of an ICU room, some specific devices are identified: a field laboratory recovered with a pyramidal portable glove bag,
A fully equipped EVD-ICU room
Healthcare providers wearing PPE and training at a field laboratory recovered with a portable glove bag
a mobile X-ray system and a portable ultrasound machine. This equipment is dedicated to the EVD case for his whole length of stay in the ICU room. Special attention is paid to the safety of healthcare workers involved in the management of an EVD patient. Healthcare workers are wearing personal protective equipment, including single-
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use impermeable gown, hood, face mask, goggles, two Conflicts of interest On behalf of all authors, the corresponding pairs of nitrile gloves and one with extended cuffs, and author states that there is no conflict of interest. boots. Specific equipment for waste disposal is placed in the EVD-ICU room.
Pierre Pasquier Ce´cile Ficko Audrey Me´rens Cle´ment Dubost
IMAGING IN INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE
Preparing an ICU room to welcome a critically ill patient with Ebola virus disease
Received: 10 November 2014 Accepted: 10 November 2014 Published online: 28 November 2014 Ó Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg and ESICM 2014 P. Pasquier ()) C. Dubost Intensive Care Unit, Be´gin Military Teaching Hospital, Saint-Mande´, France e-mail: [email protected] P. Pasquier C. Ficko A. Me´rens C. Dubost Be´gin Ebola Teamwork, Be´gin Military Teaching Hospital, Saint-Mande´, France
An Ebola virus disease–intensive care unit (EVD-ICU) room is fully equipped for safe and suitable management of an EVD patient requiring intensive care. the EV-ICU room is preceded by an airlock and kept in negative air pressure, with an increasing pressure gradient from airlock to the room. Beside the classical equipment of an ICU room, some specific devices are identified: a field laboratory recovered with a pyramidal portable glove bag,
A fully equipped EVD-ICU room
Healthcare providers wearing PPE and training at a field laboratory recovered with a portable glove bag
a mobile X-ray system and a portable ultrasound machine. This equipment is dedicated to the EVD case for his whole length of stay in the ICU room. Special attention is paid to the safety of healthcare workers involved in the management of an EVD patient. Healthcare workers are wearing personal protective equipment, including single-
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use impermeable gown, hood, face mask, goggles, two Conflicts of interest On behalf of all authors, the corresponding pairs of nitrile gloves and one with extended cuffs, and author states that there is no conflict of interest. boots. Specific equipment for waste disposal is placed in the EVD-ICU room.
