Rediroom internationally recognised (Red Dot, iF Design, MDEA)
Rediroom is the world’s first mobile isolation room. Rediroom allows healthcare providers to isolate infectious patients wherever they are. Rediroom transforms from a mobile cart to an air-filtered isolation room, with hands-free entry/exit and integrated PPE station. Rediroom helps stop the spread of infection in hospitals. It enables healthcare workers to rapidly respond to infection outbreaks by providing an isolation room that can be erected over a patient in-situ in under 5 minutes. Rediroom consists of an expandable frame, within which a consumable ‘canopy’ is suspended to create an air-filtered isolation room on a standard multi-bed hospital ward.
Isolating a patient within Rediroom creates a physical separation to help stop the spread of infections through direct contact. The powered, hands-free entrance/exit curtain is designed reduce indirect contact contamination. In addition to the physical separation, Rediroom uses air filtration to help reduce the spread of infections through respiratory droplets. Constant negative airflow provides 12 air changes per hour inside the Rediroom. The in-built H14 HEPA filter removes 99.995% of pathogens down to 0.3μm – small enough to trap bacteria, fungi and viral aerosols before returning clean air to the open ward.
Other smart design features support infection prevention best practice: the integrated PPE station encourages healthcare worker compliance by placing protective equipment, hand hygiene & surface disinfectants directly at the point of use.
Functional benefits of the Rediroom solution:
If hospitals want to build traditional, permanent isolation rooms, they have two choices: construct new wards at great expense or convert old, open-plan wards at the cost of reduced bed capacity. Rediroom is more cost-effective than new construction and allows for greater bed capacity than conversion. With the added benefit that it can be moved around a hospital depending on where it’s needed at any given moment. This gives hospital management greater bed flexibility and can eliminate “bed blocking” of limited permanent isolation rooms.
A study in the Journal of Hospital Infection used financial modelling to examine the cost impact of Rediroom on the UK’s National Health Service. The authors concluded that Rediroom was a cost-effective intervention, having an expected cost of just £5,829 per Life Year Gained (LYG), well below the common benchmark of £13,000 per LYG.
Converting multi-bed wards will reduce overall bed capacity: a typical 6-8 bed ward can only accommodate roughly 4 single side rooms. Given the stresses placed on healthcare services worldwide, reducing overall bed capacity is rarely an option.
Rediroom can fit into a single standard bed space. Meaning a traditional 6-8 bed ward can easily be converted into 6-8 single isolation rooms.
Improving patient outcomes:
The CDC estimates 1 in 31 hospital patients has a Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI). At the same time, there’s a worldwide shortage of isolation spaces in healthcare. Infectious patients shed harmful micro-organisms into the environment which can be transferred to other patients, visitors and staff. HAI’s result in significant increases in mortality, morbidity, re-admission rates and healthcare costs. For example, patients suffering a HAI often endure a prolonged hospital stay that is 18.1 days longer, on average, than patients without this hospital-acquired complication.
The importance of infection control has been underlined by the COVID-19 pandemic and has highlighted the key role that barrier isolation and PPE usage has to play in reducing transmission. A host of pathogens can spread via direct contact (typically through contaminated hands) or indirect contact (involving contaminated surfaces).
Proper use of demonstrably effective products, such as Rediroom and the PPE equipment it makes accessible, plays a crucial role in disrupting the transmission of coronavirus as well as preventing the spread of other communicable diseases and healthcare associated infections.
Improving healthcare delivery:
Rediroom changes the way hospitals isolate patients. It gives hospitals more control over how they deal with outbreaks and increased bed pressures. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the key role that barrier isolation and PPE usage has to play in reducing transmission. Beyond COVID, the WHO promotes physical isolation as a vital step in preventing the spread of key hospital pathogens.
It's currently common for patients cared for by one specialist team of doctors (for instance Respiratory Medicine) to be isolated on an unrelated ward out of necessity (e.g. Gastroenterology). Because Rediroom is mobile, it allows patients to be safely isolated on their home ward, under the care of a dedicated specialist team. In emergency departments or medical assessment units, limited side room availability means potentially infectious patients are often cared for in an open area before they can be triaged. In these situations, Rediroom can be used as a semi-permanent installation – instantly increasing isolation capacity.
Within the UK’s NHS, Rediroom has been used for COVID-19 screening on admission, providing an isolation space for newly admitted patients awaiting test results.
In whatever way it is utilised, Rediroom allows hospital management more control over patient flow by increasing isolation capacity and bed flexibility.
REDIROOM - AWARD ACCOLADES:
+ 2022: Red Dot: Best of the Best Award
+ 2022: iF Gold Design Award
+ 2022: Medical Design Excellence Awards - Gold
+ 2021: Good Design Australia: Best in Class Award (Product Design: Medical and Scientific)
+ 2021: Good Design Australia: Gold Award (Engineering Design)