The present invention relates to a hyperbaric ambulance and transfer-under-pressure (TUP) unit. More particularly, the present invention relates to a vehicle for emergency transport and treatment of a patient that is capable of providing hyperbaric oxygen treatment to the patient, and a mobile unit for transferring the patient from the vehicle to a medical care facility. More particularly, the present invention includes a vehicle having a driver section and a vehicle chassis having a patient section that includes a hyperbaric treatment chamber. An entrance module can be positioned in between the driver section and the patient section, the entrance module having a communication and control compartment and a pressure module. The pressure module can have at least two pressure hatches, wherein at least one of the at least two pressure hatches allows personnel to enter the pressure module from the control compartment, and at least one of the at least two pressure hatches allows personnel to enter the treatment chamber from the pressure module. The pressure module enables a user to selectively enter or exit the entrance module while simultaneously maintaining a selected elevated pressure value in said patient section, and preferably enables a user to selectively enter or exit said hyperbaric treatment chamber from the entrance module while simultaneously maintaining a selected elevated pressure value in the patient section.

An infection control vehicle includes a floor material. The floor material includes a plurality of holes that is open on an upper end. The holes are configured to capture a droplet. For example, a dimension of each of the holes is set so that the droplet inside the hole remains inside the hole.

A patient isolation unit (PIU) for use in marine rescues. The PIU of this invention is useful to safely transport personnel exposed to, or potentially exposed to, an identified and/or known infectious agent or chemical warfare agent (CWA) on marine vessels and/or aircraft such as Coast Guard boasts, cutters and aircraft. The PIU has a generally tapered tubular shape compatible with wire rescue baskets conforming in shape to the human body and into which an injured, sick, or disabled person can be safely strapped, such as the Stokes litter rescue basket for hoisting and fit in rotary wing aircraft.

A flexible rapid deployable system that may be used create an isolated space within a medical transport vehicle for use when transporting infected or contaminated patients, including a flexible tent-like liner that creates a room inside the vehicle where both the patient and medical personnel can be isolated and that isolates contaminants within and a filtration system capable of producing the required air flow to maintain a negative pressurized isolated environment, sized to effectively accomplish this for the isolated cubic space.

The present invention provides a negative-pressure shield device with a simple device structure, which is relatively inexpensive to manufacture, and is extremely effective in preventing infection within an ambulance. The negative-pressure shield device comprises a shield main body that is installed in a patient compartment of an ambulance, includes a ceiling part and a peripheral wall part, and covers at least the head of a patient on a stretcher mounted in the patient compartment, and a connection part which communicates with the interior of the shield main body and connects to a ventilation opening provided in the patient compartment.

A flexible rapid deployable system that may be used create an isolated space within a medical transport vehicle for use when transporting infected or contaminated patients, including a flexible tent-like liner creates a room inside the vehicle where both the patient and medical personnel can be isolated and contain contaminants within and a filtration system capable of producing the required air flow to maintain a negative pressurized isolated environment, sized to effectively accomplish this for the isolated cubic space.

The present disclosure provides a medical device. The medical device may include a gantry, a table, and one or more disinfection devices. The gantry may include a bore configured to accommodate an object for scan. The table may be configured to support the object and move the object into the bore. The one or more disinfection devices may be configured for disinfection.

An electrostatic spray disinfecting system is integrated into a mobile environment to enable the mobile environment to be automatically subjected to an electrostatic spraying operation when the mobile environment is moving or stationary without the need for a human operator to participate in the spraying operation. An electrostatic sprayer of the system is mechanically coupled to a structure of the mobile environment in a preselected position relative to an internal compartment of the mobile environment. A reservoir of disinfecting material and is fluidly coupled to the electrostatic sprayer for delivering a flow of the disinfecting material to the sprayer. When an electrical switching circuit is placed in an On state, electrical power is delivered to the electrostatic sprayer to electrostatically charge the particles of the disinfecting material delivered to the electrostatic sprayer and to cause the electrostatically-charged particles to be sprayed from the electrostatic spray nozzle into the internal compartment.

The present invention relates to an ambulance having an infectious disease blocking function and an interior pressure control method therefor, the ambulance having a driver seat, a vehicle body and an emergency care compartment which is mounted on the vehicle body and which has a space in which a patient can be placed, and comprising an air pressure regulation part for setting the inside of the emergency care compartment to have a positive pressure or a negative pressure, and a control part for selectively controlling a positive pressure or a negative pressure of the air pressure regulation part.

A method of treating an inside volume of a mobile vehicle including the steps of: a) obtaining a treatment system placed in an operative position with respect to the mobile vehicle and having: i) at least one UV light source; and ii) an air mover; b) operating the air treatment system in one state wherein surfaces within the inside volume are directly exposed to UV light rays; c) changing the air treatment system from the one state into another state so that at least part of the surfaces directly exposed to UV light rays from the at least one UV light source with the treatment system in the one state are not directly exposed to UV light rays; and d) operating the treatment system in the another state wherein air advanced by the air mover is disinfected by UV light rays from the at least one UV light source and distributed within the inside volume.