Isolation ward (medicine)

A special isolation (also Hochisolierstation ) is a hospital department or part of such for secretion and treatment of patients with highly contagious infectious diseases such as viral hemorrhagic fever or smallpox.

The special isolation of infectiological Clinic of the Charité in Berlin, with 22 beds, the largest isolation of Germany. More treatment centers for patients with highly infectious diseases, each with two to six beds are available at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, at the University Hospital Frankfurt am Main, at the Municipal Hospital St Georg Leipzig, at the Klinikum Schwabing in Munich, Klinikum Saarbrücken, at the medical Mission hospital in Würzburg and at the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart.

In the assignment case ( infection with Marburg virus, Ebola virus, smallpox, plague and cholera ) the stations are shut off, the power supply via special central lock areas. In the rooms, a slight vacuum, waste and waste water, there are autoclaved separately.