Mobile isolation units in Polish hospitals

Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine of the UKSW, together with the university foundation, have created and produced a portable isolation unit for patients infected with the coronavirus.

Ten such units are already protecting doctors in Polish hospitals. The UKSW has created a project for an effective and portable isolation unit which, on one hand protects healthcare workers and on the other, allows free access to patients. The project was created in close cooperation with doctors and medical staff at the Czerniakowski Hospital in Warsaw. At the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, the first mobile isolation units have already been operating for a week. There are plans to expand the use of designed shields also for operating theaters and hospital emergency departments.

Thanks to your help and with your support, we have already produced ten such mobile isolation units. Remember, you can still support our fight against the coronavirus by paying any amount to the account number: 75 1090 1056 0000 0001 4453 0441 with the note: Fighting coronavirus.

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We plan to buy more mobile isolation units for the most-needed medical facilities in Poland.

Detailed use of a mobile isolation unit. The shield is applicable to patients intubated, non-invasively ventilated and able to breathe on their own. In particular, it is used in the operating room (including intubation or self-breathing under regional anesthesia), during hospital transport, in hospital wards, during diagnostics (e.g. X-ray, ultrasound) performed on the patient’s bed. Thanks to its simple design, it is possible to disassemble the shield quickly, and to disinfect and install it for the next patient. The design also allows a telecommunications device to be attached to the patient coupled to a telecommunications device linked to medical personnel that enables the physician to contact the patient during examination and to monitor his or her health. The combination of the tablet with a non-contact thermometer enables periodic temperature measurement without the care workers approaching the patient.