[Betty Mundua]

Thankyou Fiona,

I have a similar concern on negative pressure. Im located in Lae Morobe in
Papua New Guinea and for the COVID-19 hospital all pts that meet the
criteria to be admitted will be in one unit. Currently, the unit is
designed with an air extractor that uses the wind current. It isn’t safe.
My question is if air conditioning is to be installed, what properties
should I look for… For a HEPA system is it inbuilt in all air conditions?
or is it different?

Thankyou,

Betty

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 12:40 PM De Sousa, Fiona M wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> * In response to COVID, and for future planning I have been asked to
> consider the creation of a negative pressure operating theatre for use in
> emergency surgery for a COVID positive case (e.g. C-section, post MVA).
> I am aware that this is against the usual recommendations which are for
> positive pressure operating theatre to reduce risk of Surgical Site
> Infection. However it has been raised with me that the risk of unexpected
> intubation of a COVID positive patient in a positive pressure theatre puts
> staff at risk. I am interested in how other facilities are responding to
> this issue and balancing risk to staff with risk to patient. Kind
> regards, Fiona De Sousa CICP-E| Nurse Manager | Infection Prevention &
> Control Unit Launceston General Hospital, Level 2, Launceston TAS 7250
> phone: 6777 6715 | mobile: 0408 487 197 | fax: 6777 5170 | email:
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