RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
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
FD British Medical Journal Publishing Group
SP 217
OP 221
DO 10.1136/jramc-2016-000623
VO 162
IS 3
A1 Ian Ewington
A1 E Nicol
A1 M Adam
A1 A T Cox
A1 A D Green
YR 2016
UL http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/162/3/217.abstract
AB 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.