Isolation on demand, wherever you need it

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are one of the most common, significant, and preventable patient safety issues today. Each year in Australia, 180,000 patients suffer HAIs that prolong hospital stay and consume 2 million hospital bed days.¹ Not only is this a huge cause of morbidity and mortality, but it also places a significant strain on hospital resources.² Prevention of pathogen transmission is becoming more challenging due to the increasing prevalence of multi-drug resistant organisms (MROs).

Physical separation of patients is an important step in reducing the transmission of key hospital pathogens. The allocation of single rooms is almost a science in itself, with many and varied reasons for isolating a patient vying for this finite resource. The use of risk assessment tools determines a patient may need to be “isolated” in a multi-occupancy bay using standard curtains and notification posters. While this is standard practice, there is an innovative alternative to increase the availability of additional isolation space to help prevent infections and save lives.

Clinell Rediroom

From the makers of Clinell, Rediroom is a cost and time-effective method of safe and efficient patient isolation. It has been designed to offer the middle ground between single rooms and multi-occupancy bays — providing many of the benefits of single occupancy rooms (better containment of pathogens, improved hand hygiene)⁶ and multi-occupancy bays (patient visibility and reduced cost in terms of staffing). The conversion of multi-bed rooms to single-occupancy rooms improves patient outcomes and reduces the burden of HAIs^3,4 — including MRSA and C. difficile.^4-6

Specifically designed as an alternative to hospitals needing to build permanent, expensive, and space-consuming isolation facilities that may only be used occasionally — Rediroom enables hospital pathogens and outbreaks to be safely controlled, to reduce the spread of infection.

Rediroom conforms to Australian infection prevention guidelines⁷ and offers isolation on demand, in a single occupancy room supported by HEPA and carbon filtration with a hands-free door opening mechanism. A built-in PPE station supports precautions management, and the device is easily deployed by one person in less than 5 minutes. It is designed to assist in isolating infectious patients under contact or droplet precautions in hospitals (wards, ED, recovery, etc.) and other facilities including aged care, airports, outbreak management and military bases.

For more information on Clinell Rediroom go to www.gamahealthcare.com.au and to discuss an evaluation email info@gamahealthcare.com.au.

References

1. Australian safety and quality goals for health care - healthcare-associated infection, action guide. Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health care
2. Zimlichman E, Henderson D, Tamir O, Franz C, Song P, Yamin CK, et al. Health care-associate infections: a meta-analysis of costs and financial impact on the US health care system. JAMA Intern Med. 2013; 13(22):2039-46.
3. Wigglesworth N, Wilcox M. Prospective evaluation of hospital isolation room capacity. J Hosp Infect 2006; 73:15-23.
4. Teltsch DY, Hanley J, Loo V, Goldberg P, Gursahaney A, Buckeridge DL. Infection acquisition following intensive care unit room privatization. Arch Intern Med 2011; 17:32-8.
5. Halaby T, al Neimi N, Besihuizen B, Verkooijen R, Ferriera JA, Klont R, vandenbroucke-Grauls C. Impact of single room design on the spread of multi-drug resistant bacteria in an intensive care unit. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2017; 6:117.
6. Levin PD, Golovanevski M, Moses AE, Sprung CL, Benenson S. Improved ICU design reduces acquisition of antibiotic-resistant bacteria: a quasi-experimental observational study. Critical Care 2011; 15:R211.
7. NHMRC. Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare. In: Commonwealth of Australia, editor. 2010.