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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just read this article:  [url]http://abcnews.go.com/Health/americans-ebola-flown-back-us/story?id=24799794[/url]

"Emory University Hospital has a specially built isolation unit set up in collaboration with the CDC to treat patients who are exposed to certain serious infectious diseases," hospital officials said. "It is physically separate from other patient areas and has unique equipment and infrastructure that provide an extraordinarily high level of clinical isolation. It is one of only four such facilities in the country."

"Emory University Hospital physicians, nurses and staff are highly trained in the specific and unique protocols and procedures necessary to treat and care for this type of patient. [b]For this specially trained staff,[/b] these procedures are practiced on a regular basis throughout the year so we are fully prepared for this type of situation."

It sounds like there is no opting out, except for maybe folks with significant health concerns, but it also sounds like this is what they're trained for.  [/quote]

It kind of sounds like one segment of the staff is trained for this, as opposed to all ICU staff. I think the time to opt out would have been when you were being selected for this special team. Given that your hospital is in Atlanta, as is the CDC, you had to have imagined that sometime in your career you'd have to deal with something like this if you were on the special team. Sounds like everyone/everything will be kept separate and apart so Joe Schome who is in charge of stocking the supply closets with IVs/saline won't have to be wandering up to this unit in order to hold on to his job.[/quote]

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