Question

1. Modern hospitals often contain semiprivate rooms and wards where many people share a single room. In light of the spread of microorganisms, what patients would be good candidates to occupy these rooms?

2. why do negative pressure rooms are sometimes referred to as source isolation rooms, while positive pressure rooms are sometime called protective isolation rooms?

3. why do isolation rooms are often built with glass walls. What possible advantages?

4. Recommendations for designing new intensive care units include locating the unit near the operating theater and emergency department, but away from the main hospital wards. Why? 5. In the UPMC fungal infection outbreak, a pediatric hospital was being constructed next door to the building where the infections took place. Why is this fact important?

Answer 1

QUESTION 1

In this context, the semi-private rooms and wards are mainly used for two or more patients. However, there is an important different between patients in private vs semi-private rooms. People with immunosuppression conditions must be in a private room in order to prevent any opportunistic infection. The same applies for burn victims. Now, the semi private rooms are focused on non immuno-suppressed patients that may or not share the same infectious pathogen. This kind of rooms are used to isolate a determinate pathogen from non infected patients.