Aerial medical evacuation of health workers with suspected Ebola virus disease in Guinea Conakry-interest of a negative pressure isolation pod-a case series

BMC Emergency Medicine

Correspondence

Abdoul Bing¹  Solenne Barbe¹  Olivier Peyrouset¹  Richard Kojan¹  Romain Palich¹  Souley Harouna¹  Jean-Michel Dindart²  Nikki Blackwell³ 

[1] Alliance for International Medical Action, Dakar, Senegal;Alliance for International Medical Action, Dakar, Senegal;CHU de Bordeaux, University of Bordeaux, Talence, France;Alliance for International Medical Action, Dakar, Senegal;University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia;

关键词: Air transit isolator;    Ebola;    Guinea;    Transportation of patients;    Haemorrhagic fever;    Infection control;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12873-017-0121-x

 received in 2015-11-07, accepted in 2017-03-04,  发布年份 2017

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

We report 4 cases of Health Workers (HW) suspected of having contracted Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), transported from the Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) Ebola Treatment Centre (ETC) in N’Zerekore, Guinea to the Treatment Centre for Carers run by the medical corps of the French army in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, which was established on 17 January 2015 and closed on 7 July 2015. In total more than 500 HWs have died from EVD since the epidemic began. This mortality has had significant effects on the ability of local services to respond appropriately to the disaster. The HWs were transported by air in the “Human Stretcher Transit Isolator-Total Containment (Oxford) Limited” (HSTI-TCOL) negative pressure isolation pod. Medical evacuation of patients with suspected, potentially fatal, infectious diseases is feasible with the use of a light isolator for patients without critical dysfunctions.

【 授权许可】

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© The Author(s). 2017