Hot and Cold Zones - KC
Jan 31, 2024, 12:04 PM
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We did get our systems fitted to be generally a one-way system… We’d see people in all the consulting spaces, if they needed to be seen… One of the things we were frightened of, was having to see an asthmatic who needed a nebuliser, because we were quite convinced that that was aerosol-generating… Apart from this one very anxious man, who I think was hyper-ventilating, we had to once see in our emergency room where we had labels and things saying, you know, swab after use, etc, uh, we didn’t have to give anyone a nebuliser… We had a rather convenient sort of corridor that led to a door, straight out the corridor, so we thought if you have to consult, we can then kind of wall off this bit of corridor – someone would come in, we’d give them a nebuliser, shut the door, come back when the nebuliser settled down – and they can knock on the door or something – but we did work a safe space that went directly out to the car park that someone could use as a tiny little treatment room, that would mean you would shut the person off from the rest of the surgery… and they could come in directly from the door in the car park… We had to kind of invent stuff…