Certain highly hazardous communicable diseases (HHCD), including viral hemorrhagic fevers, the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), and severe acute respiratory syndrome virus (SARS), have caused nosocomial outbreaks in unprepared facilities. Consequently, biocontainment units have been constructed to protect caregivers, patients, and family members, in addition to providing optimal care of the infected patient. Biocontainment units have adopted many of the design features originally found in biocontainment laboratories and can serve as national referral facilities for the most severe and highly hazardous infections.
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Kortepeter, M. G., Kwon, E. H., & Cieslak, T. J. (2018). Designing Medical Facilities to Care for Patients with Highly Hazardous Communicable Diseases. In Bioemergency Planning (pp. 21–34). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77032-1_2
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