Day 24

At the beginning of this I described the adaptations that were made to the ICU rooms that were not built originally with negative air pressure capabilities. Here is a picture of it, there was finally an empty room to get a shot of it! Such a small window out from the rooms. Then the actual room is probably 10 by 10 feet. Super small. We try to limit our time in the rooms so extension tubing has been used to make the IV pumps accessible from outside the room. It makes it so we can administer medications or titrate drips without entering the room. Then we group other actions that require us to go into the room together. In some small way, it is good that most of our patients are unaware of their circumstances. It would be very difficult to spend days or weeks, within these rooms.

Britt.