Any virus expelled while the patient was treated would be kept in by the room’s negative pressure system. The Star surveyed other hospitals with emergency departments built post-SARS, which reported they included negative pressure rooms in their critical care sections. Sunnybrook hospital has “two resuscitation rooms that are negative pressure” in the critical care section of their emergency department, said spokesperson Craig Duhamel. Like Oakville Trafalgar, it has three negative pressure rooms, one immediately inside the ambulance bay arrival area. The lack of negative pressure treatment rooms in the critical care area of Markham Stouffville Hospital has been concerning to nurses and doctors who work there.

Source: thestar May 07, 2020 21:45 UTC