Introduction:Over the past decade, the world has wrestled with two major pandemics: Ebola and COV... more Introduction:Over the past decade, the world has wrestled with two major pandemics: Ebola and COVID-19. While Ebola revealed that we needed a strategy, Covid-19 showed we still didn't have one. Apart from ensuring that we isolate and contain the virus, one of the major concerns in responding to a pandemic is limiting transmission to healthcare personnel.Method:This presentation describes a clinician's experience with employing the same infection control strategies used for Ebola in a makeshift Ebola Treatment Unit in a school in Sierra Leone and at a COVID-19 alternate care facility built in a convention center in the US.Results:Transmission control strategies used for healthcare workers during Ebola were also successful for COVID-19. Both facilities, despite grossly different access to financial resources, ensured all clinicians didn’t break protocol of safety, due to rigorous donning and doffing entrances and exits, internalized individual risk, separated spaces with tape,...
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 2021
In March 2020, the State of Louisiana opened an alternative care site at the New Orleans Conventi... more In March 2020, the State of Louisiana opened an alternative care site at the New Orleans Convention Center, known as the Medical Monitoring Station (MMS). The facility was designed, constructed, and staffed to serve a population with basic medical needs as they recovered from COVID-19. As the MMS prepared to open, local hospitals indicated a greater need for assistance with patients requiring a higher acuity of care and populations unable to be discharged due to infection risks. In response to this, the capabilities of the facility were altered to accommodate primarily elderly patients, with significant comorbidities, requiring extensive care. This manuscript presents the demographics of the first 250 patients seen at the MMS, and describes the most critical policies/protocols, interventions, and resources that proved successful in adjusting to effectively serve its population.
Introduction:Over the past decade, the world has wrestled with two major pandemics: Ebola and COV... more Introduction:Over the past decade, the world has wrestled with two major pandemics: Ebola and COVID-19. While Ebola revealed that we needed a strategy, Covid-19 showed we still didn't have one. Apart from ensuring that we isolate and contain the virus, one of the major concerns in responding to a pandemic is limiting transmission to healthcare personnel.Method:This presentation describes a clinician's experience with employing the same infection control strategies used for Ebola in a makeshift Ebola Treatment Unit in a school in Sierra Leone and at a COVID-19 alternate care facility built in a convention center in the US.Results:Transmission control strategies used for healthcare workers during Ebola were also successful for COVID-19. Both facilities, despite grossly different access to financial resources, ensured all clinicians didn’t break protocol of safety, due to rigorous donning and doffing entrances and exits, internalized individual risk, separated spaces with tape,...
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 2021
In March 2020, the State of Louisiana opened an alternative care site at the New Orleans Conventi... more In March 2020, the State of Louisiana opened an alternative care site at the New Orleans Convention Center, known as the Medical Monitoring Station (MMS). The facility was designed, constructed, and staffed to serve a population with basic medical needs as they recovered from COVID-19. As the MMS prepared to open, local hospitals indicated a greater need for assistance with patients requiring a higher acuity of care and populations unable to be discharged due to infection risks. In response to this, the capabilities of the facility were altered to accommodate primarily elderly patients, with significant comorbidities, requiring extensive care. This manuscript presents the demographics of the first 250 patients seen at the MMS, and describes the most critical policies/protocols, interventions, and resources that proved successful in adjusting to effectively serve its population.
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