How will hospitals isolate patients with a limited number of negative pressure rooms-will recommendations for airborne isolation change?
Under extraordinary circumstances, where the quantity of engineered airborne infection isolation (AII) rooms is insufficient to meet surge demand, hospitals can take various measures to protect patients and staff. MDH has developed a manual for facility engineers, which describes temporary methods of isolating patients for one room or for larger surge capacity needs. The manual, Infectious Disease Management: Methods for Temporary Negative Pressure Isolation, is a guide to assist hospitals in following recommendations for airborne infection isolation. The manual has been distributed to each hospital and regional trainings have been conducted with facility engineers. The manual will soon be available on the MDH website and on CD. Hospitals that do not have any airborne infection isolation (AII) rooms have purchased portable HEPA filter machines that they can use to isolate patients. In collaboration with the University of Minnesota MERET program, the manual has been made into two online
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