Operation of the infectious diseases department

By operation, the infection department differs from others. In addition to medical care, it also provides isolation. The box system proves to be the most efficient - single to triple rooms with their own sanitary facilities, the infectious part and the non-infectious part must be separated, sanitary filters, equipment for the disposal of infectious material.
 * Isolation measures must prevent disease transmission between patients and staff and it must prevent it from "escaping outside".
 * Building layout as the first prerequisite.


 * Operating rules – separate storage for civilian and operational clothing, passage through a filter, protective equipment, hand washing, ban on eating and drinking, ...

Admission of patients

 * Patients who are hospitalized (according to regulations):
 * patients with an infection that is subject to mandatory isolation regardless of the severity of the symptoms;
 * patients who are not required but have a severe course of infection;
 * patients whose illness is subject to a different clinic but have an infection;
 * patients with unclear diagnosis with suspected infectious etiology.

Placement of patients

 * 1) more crietria should be taken into account compared to other wards;
 * 2) we divide patients mainly according to the type of infection;
 * 3) important to consider the stage of the disease

Discharge of patients

 * We dismiss according to these principles, where hospitalization is not mandatory, we follow the state of health, for diseases with compulsory hospitalization - after a given period of isolation, with regard to the state of health, when the values ​​of certain tests fall, before discharge - the patient takes a bath, wears civilian clothes and since then he no longer enters the wards.

Visits

 * Visitors are not allowed, exceptions put on a face mask and scrubs.