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From: Beyond Ebola treatment units: severe infection temporary treatment units as an essential element of Ebola case management during an outbreak

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The concept of an optimized ETU. The Severe Infection Temporary Treatment Unit (SITTU) in Monrovia consisted of a Suspect Cases Area, an Unlikely Cases Area and a Confirmed Negative Cases Area, thereby representing only a part of the idealised facility pictured above (lower half of the image). In the Monrovia scenario the complementary parts (as shown in the upper half of the Fig. 1) were represented by pre-existing conventional ETUs near the SITTU. The two additional areas (Unlikely Cases Area and Confirmed Negative Cases Area, in the lower half of the figure) allow an allocation of patients according to their risk of not being infected by Ebola virus with the aim of reducing the risk of nosocomial Ebola virus infections and facilitating an adapted medical care

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