French Army acquires transport chambers.

• Author: Williams, Robert H.
• Position: Tech Talk - Brief Article

A French company is producing a confinement chamber for the movement of biologically contaminated patients. Two of the chambers already are in use by the French Army, and seven more have been ordered.

Applications Technologiques Avancees, of Nantes Saint Herblain, France, has produced chambers that permit medical treatment for infected patients while negating cross-contamination of the environment.

Officials are considering other uses, including the movement of "infectious patients, such as children with meningitis, serious burn cases and inter-hospital...