US 12,751,880 B2 · Isolation room systems and methods

Abstract

An isolation enclosure for isolating a human in the surrounding area of a bed with a mattress laid on its frame, allowing the human to move freely within the isolation chamber that extends above the bed frame. The canopy forms a sealed isolation chamber against external air, equipped with wheels, casters, sliders, etc., for transporting the support frame, canopy, and bed, thereby transferring the patient on the bed within the isolation chamber. The environmental control device can be connected to the isolation chamber, featuring a filter for filtering at least one of the incoming air to the isolation chamber and the outgoing air from the isolation chamber, and a pump for performing at least one of the operations of sending air into the isolation chamber to increase the pressure inside the chamber above the external air pressure, and extracting air to lower the pressure inside the chamber below the external air pressure.

An isolation room system comprising:

a rigid collapsible architecture defined by a plurality of metal poles that includes:
four parallel vertical poles that define corners of the isolation room system and contact the ground,
a pair of parallel sidewall beams extending between respective pairs of the four parallel vertical poles that define the corners of the isolation room system, parallel sidewall beams extending perpendicular to the four parallel vertical poles that define the corners of the isolation room system, and
a pair of parallel end-wall beams extending between respective pairs of the four parallel vertical poles that define the corners of the isolation room system;
a plurality of flexible and foldable walls supported by the rigid collapsible architecture and defined by transparent or translucent flexible polymer sheets, the plurality of flexible and foldable walls defining a polyhedron shape with walls that include two parallel end-walls, two parallel sidewalls, at least one roof wall, and a floor wall, the two parallel sidewalls having the same width that is longer than a maximum width of the two parallel end-walls, the plurality of flexible and foldable walls defining:
a chamber defined at least in part by the two parallel end-walls, the two parallel sidewalls, the at least one roof wall and the floor wall, the chamber having a volume of 410-370 cubic feet and configured to hold a bed for an isolated patient within the chamber,
a plurality of lean-in glove panel interfaces that each comprise a front panel having a first and second glove extending into the chamber, the front panel rotatably coupled to a wall via a hinge that allows the front panel to rotate toward and away from the wall that the front panel is rotatably coupled to, the plurality of lean-in glove panel interfaces disposed respectively on at least both of the two parallel sidewalls and on at least one of the two parallel end-walls,
a plurality of airlocks that comprise an enclosure that defines an airlock cavity, with a pair of doors that respectively provide access to the airlock cavity via the outside and inside of the isolation room system, the plurality of airlocks disposed respectively on at least both of the two parallel sidewalls,
an elongated interface unit disposed on at least one of the two parallel sidewalls and configured for one or more medical devices including a stethoscope to be inserted therein to interface with the isolated patient within the chamber and configured and located for the one or more medical devices including the stethoscope to be manipulated by a user of at least one of the plurality of lean-in glove panel interfaces, the elongated interface unit defined by a material in a manner that the one or more medical devices including a stethoscope are arranged to operate through the material of the elongated interface unit,
a plurality of pass-throughs disposed in at least the two parallel sidewalls and at least one of the parallel end-walls that are configured to allow various elements to extend through the at least one of the two parallel sidewalls and into the chamber, the various elements including one or more of an IV line, a ventilator tube, a monitor line, an oxygen line, a catheter line, a communication line, and a power line,
an end-wall door disposed in at least one of the two parallel end- walls, the end-wall door defined by a C-shaped end-wall seal in a portion of the at least one of the two parallel end-walls where opening the end-wall seal provides for opening the end-wall door and closing the end-wall seal provides for closing the end-wall door, and
a sidewall door disposed in at least one of the two parallel sidewalls, the sidewall door defined by a C-shaped sidewall seal in a portion of the at least one of the two parallel sidewalls where opening the sidewall seal provides for opening the sidewall door and closing the sidewall seal provides for closing the sidewall door,
an air filtration system coupled to at least one of the two parallel end-walls, the air filtration system comprising a filter disposed within the at least one of the two parallel end-walls and further comprising a duct that extends to a fan that generates a negative pressure within the duct, which in turn pulls air from within at least the chamber through the filter, the air filtration system generating at least 15 air-exchanges-per-hour of at least the volume of the chamber and generating a negative pressure within the chamber of between −2.5 and −2.7 Pascals;
and
a plurality of intake filters coupled directly to the roof wall that allow for air intake into the chamber based at least in part on the negative pressure generated within the chamber;
wherein the isolation room system is collapsible and mobile and configured to:
be brought into a room via a standard sized door in a collapsed and mobile configuration, and
be erected within the room to an erected size where the erected isolation room system is not removable through the standard sized door because of the erected size being too large to fit through the standard sized door, wherein the standard sized door has a height of less than or equal to 8′0″ and a width of less than or equal to 3′6″.

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