Patent ID: 7934981

Claim:
A patient isolation module comprising; a hospital bed; a cubicle having walls and a ceiling enclosing said hospital bed; a room-air intake opening at one end of said cubicle, and an air treatment unit mounted on an opposite end of said cubicle relative to said one end; said air treatment unit having fan inlet openings near a head of said hospital bed, said fan inlet openings comprising a horizontal opening extending horizontally above said head of said hospital bed and two vertical openings extending vertically downward from said horizontal opening on respective sides of said hospital bed; and means including said hospital bed and said fan inlet openings for forming a hood-shaped air stream having a horseshoe cross-section extending over and along both sides of said hospital bed wherein said air intake opening is three times as large as said fan inlet openings and the vertical openings extend below a surface of said hospital bed.