Mintie | Global Provider of Indoor Environmental Solutions

Product Application

Construction, Renovation & Maintenance

Proper containment of work areas inside healthcare facilities is an important part of preventing Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs). The ECU product lines are collapsible, lightweight units that can easily be deployed by one person in 10-20 minutes depending on the model. We make proper containment hassle free.

ECU-DE

ECU-CC

ECU2

Mobile Platform

Clinical

Natural epidemics, weather and bio-terrorist events have the potential to overwhelm current fixed healthcare facility infrastructure. As a result, there is increasing regulatory and recommendation pressure on healthcare facilities to expand their ability to respond to scenarios of surge capacity and mass isolation. Our effective, efficient ECU product line are easy to set up and can help your facility meet its preparedness needs.

ECU-CC

ECU2

Surge Capacity

Emergency Anteroom
The ECU2 functions as an easily deployable, emergency anteroom for patient room* isolation. This allows a healthcare facility to increase the number of individually isolated patients it can treat beyond the existing number of fixed isolation rooms.

There are three major benefits of this Surge Capacity solution;

• ECU2 temporarily increases the number of available isolation capable rooms, avoiding the infinitely greater cost of maintaining a larger number of permanent fixed isolation rooms
• ECU2 is a portable solution allowing isolation rooms to be set up wherever it is necessary instead of being tied to specific rooms which may be scattered over different floors and buildings.
• ECU2 increases logistical flexibility since specific isolation rooms don't need to be kept empty in anticipation of future need, any room can be converted at any time.

Multi-purpose cost effective solution

• CDC, JCAHO compliant
• Satisfies HRSA Critical Benchmark #2-2
• One person can set up in approximately 15 minutes
• Can be used for containment during regular maintenance
• Can be used for Mass Isolation in mass casualty events
• HRSA funding is available under the Hospital Preparedness Act

* The ECU2 is intended for patient room isolation and should only be used for OR isolation in case of extreme emergency. The MintieIcoRoom has been designed to meet the more rigorous clinical use requirements of the OR.
ECU2

Corridor Flange

Mass Isolation

Larger Anteroom & Airlock
Two ECU2s and a five foot connector cuff can be used in conjunction with the corridor flange accessory to create a larger anteroom/airlock for mass isolation*. The corridor flange seals the entryway of a hallway or ward and the ECU2 operates as a large negatively pressured anteroom. This prevents direct air exchange between the isolated area and general population without any building modifications. In a mass casualty event;

• Ability to transfer patients to other facilities is lost/limited due to widespread incidents. The ECU2 can be used to dramatically increase immediate isolation capacity.
• Isolating patients en masse allows for more efficient patient treatment since Staff only needs to decontaminate at one central access point.
• The large ECU2 anteroom can be used for efficient decontamination of staff and equipment - it will accommodate the lengthiest gurneys on the market.

ECU2
Multi-purpose cost effective solution

• CDC, JCAHO compliant
• Satisfies HRSA Critical Benchmark #2-2
• One person can set up in approximately 15 minutes
• Can be used for containment during regular maintenance
• Can be used for Surge Capacity in mass casualty events
• HRSA funding is available under the Hospital Preparedness Act

 

* Mass isolation requires the use of two ECU2 units connected with a 5' modular cuff, the corridor flange accessory and a negative air machine. Although these can be purchased separately, we recommend the ECU2 bundle for the best value and additional modular cuff sizes.
ECU2 Bundle

TB Isolation

• 8.8 million people each year develop normal TB
• About 450,000 get a multi-resistant form (MRD-TB)
• U.S. funding for TB control programs is in decline
• Immigrant / resident alien infection rates are increasing
• The threat of a U.S. epidemic is real and growing

When a patient with TB or other infectious diseases is in need of acute care or surgery, it puts healthcare facilities in a difficult position. Unless they have an available fixed isolation OR, they must deny the patient necessary care or put the general population at risk.

Also, most facilities have isolation patient rooms for general treatment, but new hospital preparedness guidelines on Surge Capacity require that healthcare facilities can meet the increased demand of a mass casualty event.

The IcoRoom anteroom system is a clinically tested solution to treating patients with infectious diseases. The IcoRoom combines a collapsible, portable anteroom with a high-volume, high-efficiency HEPA filtered negative air machine. When deployed, an environment of negative air pressure relative to the treatment area and the surrounding corridor is created. This temporarily gives a standard OR the same functionality of a fixed AIIR and does not require building modifications.

Surgery or Invasive Procedures can be performed safely on infectious patients at anytime, anywhere. This eliminates the disruptions to surgery and procedure scheduling for infectious disease patients common in many hospitals. The high turn rate of the IcoRoom also allows ORs to be safely returned to service a short time after working on a patient with an active TB, or other infections diseases. All of this lessens the impact of infectious patients on facility throughput and risk to general population.
ICORoom