Table 6.
Unit | Subunit | Location | Structure | Function |
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Infection control office | - | 2nd floor of hospital | Office | Development and implementation of infection control policy Monitoring and reporting of health status of patients, personnel, and visitors |
Outpatient services | Fever screening | Outside hospital—outpatient entrance | Small DRASH© unit** | Screening of persons entering outpatient entrance for fever 7:30 a.m.–9:30 p.m. Diversion of persons with fever to SARS assessment unit |
Triage* | - | Outside ED—next to SARS assessment unit | Desk in open space with umbrella | Screening of persons entering ED entrance for fever† Triage of ED patients Diversion of persons with fever to SARS assessment unit |
SARS assessment | Outside ED—next to triage unit | 8-bed DRASH© unit with radiology area and nurse’s station‡ | Screening of persons with fever for possible SARS Evaluation of patients with possible SARS for suspected or probable SARS Isolation and medical care of patients with possible SARS while undergoing evaluation for suspected or probable SARS | |
SARS assessment | SARS resuscitation | Outside ED—decontamination room | 1-bed unit power column, oxygen supply, suction device, and TV monitor | Isolation and resuscitation of critically ill patients with fever or possible SARS while undergoing evaluation for suspected or probable SARS |
Suspected SARS | Outside ED—15 meters from triage unit | 2-bed DRASH© unit for suspected SARS 1-bed DRASH© unit for probable SARS | Isolation and medical care of patients with suspected or probable SARS awaiting bed in SARS isolation unit | |
SARS isolation | 12th floor of hospital | 22 single negative pressure isolation (NPI) rooms in former pulmonary medicine ward | Isolation and medical care of patients with suspected or probable SARS | |
SARS isolation | Employee isolation | 12th floor of hospital | 25 single isolation rooms in former psychiatric ward | Isolation and medical care of personnel with fever of indeterminate origin for 3 days |
SARS critical care | - | 12th floor of hospital | 6 single NPI-critical care rooms in former pulmonary medicine ward | Isolation and medical care of critically ill patients with suspected or probable SARS |
3rd floor of hospital | 4 single NPI-critical care rooms in Surgical Intensive Care Unit |
- = Not applicable.
Triage unit included here because fever screening function was new.
DRASH© = deployable rapid assembly shelter.
Patients, visitors, and personnel from 9:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m..
Equipped with O2 supply, pulse oximetry, and cardiac monitors.