A regular stretcher would hold the subject, but a bubble stretcher is a“ biocontainment pod...made of clear plastic”(Preston, 1994). If anyone were to be bitten by a monkey they would go into the pod immediately; if the infected were to die then whatever came out of the infected would stay in the bubble. Ebola or any disease that would be airborn would stay in the bubble and not go to infect others. Ebola should be taken with caution because it can spread quickly. To minimize Ebola’s destruction, the victim cannot be operated on a regular stretcher that is open to air. Biocontainment suits and a biocontainment room should help with reducing infection. A regular stretcher should not be used because it would be impossible to transfer the infected to where it needs to go like the Slammer, level 4 biocontainment hospital or the Submarine, level 4 biocontainment morgue (Preston 1994). The word biocontainment would be the key word because biocontainment would mean containing life. Those who need to work with biocontainment would need to make sure the life being contained, is completely isolated from others. This is why when in a lab, any dangerous viruses or diseases that have infected patients should go to a bubble stretcher. Using a regular stretcher on a deadly situation is like using a stick to defend from a serial killer.
Hi Helen, I like your stick to defend from a serial killer analogy- very clever. Tell me, since the 1994 book, how had the biocontainment pod aka "bubble stretcher" been improved upon. Or do they use the same system they used back then?
The biocontainment pod is still used today. It doesn't seem to look like people making improvements on the pod. At the Nebraska Medical Center and has a pod "equipped with Biocontainment Unit Hepa-filtered individual isolation units" (Biocontainment Unit, 2009). It can handle that most deadliest of diseases or viruses like Ebola and anthrax. It is a bubble device that will isolate the infected from the world. There is a difference between the book and now; hospitals have negative air pressure to keep any pathogens in the room. The room is like a bubble because it is space that keeps pathogens in. These facilities all have negative air pressure and try to isolate the infection as much as possible.
Biocontainment Unit. (2009). Retrieved June 11, 2015, from http://www.nebraskamed.com/article/29/biocontainment-unit Courage, C. (2014, October 24). Inside the 4 U.S. Biocontainment Hospitals That Are Stopping Ebola [Video]. Retrieved June 11, 2015, from http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-the-4-u-s-biocontainment-hospitals-that-are-stopping-ebola-video/
Dibs-Helen
ReplyDeleteA regular stretcher would hold the subject, but a bubble stretcher is a“ biocontainment pod...made of clear plastic”(Preston, 1994). If anyone were to be bitten by a monkey they would go into the pod immediately; if the infected were to die then whatever came out of the infected would stay in the bubble. Ebola or any disease that would be airborn would stay in the bubble and not go to infect others. Ebola should be taken with caution because it can spread quickly. To minimize Ebola’s destruction, the victim cannot be operated on a regular stretcher that is open to air. Biocontainment suits and a biocontainment room should help with reducing infection. A regular stretcher should not be used because it would be impossible to transfer the infected to where it needs to go like the Slammer, level 4 biocontainment hospital or the Submarine, level 4 biocontainment morgue (Preston 1994). The word biocontainment would be the key word because biocontainment would mean containing life. Those who need to work with biocontainment would need to make sure the life being contained, is completely isolated from others. This is why when in a lab, any dangerous viruses or diseases that have infected patients should go to a bubble stretcher. Using a regular stretcher on a deadly situation is like using a stick to defend from a serial killer.
ReplyDeleteHi Helen, I like your stick to defend from a serial killer analogy- very clever. Tell me, since the 1994 book, how had the biocontainment pod aka "bubble stretcher" been improved upon. Or do they use the same system they used back then?
ReplyDeleteThe biocontainment pod is still used today. It doesn't seem to look like people making improvements on the pod. At the Nebraska Medical Center and has a pod "equipped with Biocontainment Unit Hepa-filtered individual isolation units" (Biocontainment Unit, 2009). It can handle that most deadliest of diseases or viruses like Ebola and anthrax. It is a bubble device that will isolate the infected from the world. There is a difference between the book and now; hospitals have negative air pressure to keep any pathogens in the room. The room is like a bubble because it is space that keeps pathogens in. These facilities all have negative air pressure and try to isolate the infection as much as possible.
ReplyDeleteBiocontainment Unit. (2009). Retrieved June 11, 2015, from http://www.nebraskamed.com/article/29/biocontainment-unit
Courage, C. (2014, October 24). Inside the 4 U.S. Biocontainment Hospitals That Are Stopping Ebola [Video]. Retrieved June 11, 2015, from http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-the-4-u-s-biocontainment-hospitals-that-are-stopping-ebola-video/