Nebraska Medicine provided KETV NewsWatch 7 an exclusive trip inside the biocontainment unit where a team of well-trained volunteers has treated or observed four people in the last year.

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KETV NewsWatch 7's Jeremy Maskel suited up with the hospital's team. During his trip, he followed the same strict checklist used by staff to treat patients with Ebola.

Skin is covered at all times in the unit and additional layers of gloves are changed with each trip into a biologically-isolated patient room. Boots, gowns, masks and shields are all a part of the process at a minimum, as well.

"We try to anticipate the most need that we would have when we go in there," Nebraska Medicine Respiratory Therapy Coordinator Frank Freihaut said.

Doctors and nurses always team up to put on and take off protective equipment, ensuring that no details are overlooked.

Chris Dahl, a radiology technician at Nebraska Medicine, takes x-rays of everyday patients. However, early in Nebraska Medicines work to treat patients with Ebola, doctors and nurses in the unit realized that x-rays could really help plan treatment for their patients.

"(They're helpful) if we see fluid, if we really need to encourage the deep breathing and coughing, if we need to get them up moving on the bike," nurse Morgan Shradar said.

On that unique, and high pressure call, rdiology technicians suit up to take a portable x-ray machine into the unit, directing unit staff on how to correctly set everything in place. Radiology techs do not actually touch the patient, but are in the room. The machine is thoroughly protected when it's in the unit, and disinfected after its use.

"It is kind of exciting, I think, just because we're having the opportunity to teach people to help save the patients from the disease that's supposedly fatal," Dahl said.

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KETV granted exclusive look at Nebraska Medicine's biocontainment unit