Isolation Room Talking Points

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• 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
• 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
• 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

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