TY - JOUR T1 - Transferring patients with Ebola by land and air: the British military experience JF - Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps JO - J R Army Med Corps SP - 217 LP - 221 DO - 10.1136/jramc-2016-000623 VL - 162 IS - 3 AU - Ian Ewington AU - E Nicol AU - M Adam AU - A T Cox AU - A D Green Y1 - 2016/06/01 UR - http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/162/3/217.abstract N2 - The Ebola epidemic of 2014/2015 led to a multinational response to control the disease outbreak. Assurance for British aid workers included provision of a robust treatment pathway including repatriation back to the UK. This pathway involved the use of both land and air assets to ensure that patients were transferred quickly, and safely, to a high-level isolation unit in the UK. Following a road move in Sierra Leone, an air transportable isolator (ATI) was used to transport patients for the flight and onward transfer to the Royal Free Hospital. There are several unique factors related to managing a patient with Ebola virus disease during prolonged evacuation, including the provision of care inside an ATI. These points are considered here along with an outline of the evacuation pathway. ER -