Fit-test programs
March 1, 2005 less than 1 minute read
These programs were identified by the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, as needing a respiratory protection program:
1. Locations having negative pressure rooms:
- 1 West
- 3 West
- PICU (3 East)
- Adult Progressive Care (4W)
- 4 East
- 5 West
- 5 East
- PACU
- ICN
- CTICU
- ICU
- CCU
- Pulmonary Clinic
- Pediatric Clinic
- Same-Day Surgery
- Emergency Department
- Surgical Special Care Unit (4 West)*
- Respiratory Therapy**
- Code Blue Team***
* Adult Progressive Care is identified as a possible location to support infectious respiratory disease patients. Rooms would be modified as negative pressure rooms using portable HEPA filtered negative pressure fans.
** Respiratory therapy will support most of the locations identified above requiring staff to be fit tested and trained annually.
*** Same justification as Respiratory Therapy
2. Gateway or DHMC medical locations where patients are likely to be seen initially and diagnosed with an infectious respiratory disease:
- GIM Clinic
- Emergency Department
- Fast Track
- IV Team
- Dialysis
- Birthing Pavilion
- CCU
- Respiratory Care
- ACOS Members
- Pulmonary Clinic
- Anesthesia
- Buck Road — Community Health Center
- Lyme Road (GIM)
- PICU (3 East)
3. Ancillary Care Areas
- Housekeeping
- Occupational Medicine
- Radiology
- Infectious Disease/Infection Control
- Transportation
These programs were identified by the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, as needing a respiratory protection program.
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