Patent ID: 6969346

Claim:
A method of fabricating an isolation chamber for providing containment of a contaminated patient, the method comprising: providing a flexible enclosure configurable to receive and transport a contaminated patient therein by: providing first and second ends; attaching a bottom member to the first and second ends, the bottom member having an edge between the first and second ends of the enclosure; and providing a lid having a first side and a second side and third and fourth ends, the lid being hingedly pivotable along the first side about the bottom member; attaching a plurality of handles to the enclosure toward the first and second ends of the enclosure; defining a plurality of spaced-apart pockets along an interior of the lid; receiving in the plurality of pockets a plurality of spaced-apart ribs configured to maintain the lid vertically spaced apart from a patient received in the flexible enclosure, an end of each of the ribs extending past the second side of the lid; defining a plurality of spaced-apart receptacles on an interior of the bottom member adjacent the edge of the bottom member, the end of each of the plurality of ribs being receivable and retainable in the plurality of receptacles, and providing a closure configured to releasably close the second side of the lid along the edge of bottom member and to releasably close the third and fourth ends of the lid along the first and second ends of the enclosure, respectively.