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Simplest Way to Establish COVID-19 Quarantine Observation Wards Within 24 Hours

Reducing nosocomial transmission within health care facilities is important, but the number of negative-pressure airborne infection isolation rooms for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) is limited. It is a daunting challenge to cope with a surge of suspected infectious pat...

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Autores principales: Huang, Wen-Nan, Zhuang, Mao-Song, Cheng, Tsun-Jen, Hsiao, Shih-Huai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7521007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32795092
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1010539520947874
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author Huang, Wen-Nan
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description Reducing nosocomial transmission within health care facilities is important, but the number of negative-pressure airborne infection isolation rooms for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) is limited. It is a daunting challenge to cope with a surge of suspected infectious patients in hospitals. We installed air exhaust fans on the windows to change the pressure direction within the wards rapidly. The best location for the fans was 90 cm from the floor and 90 cm from the edge of bed whether the indoor air conditioners were on or off. The noise level should be <60 dB(A) as per government regulations. General wards can be transformed into makeshift negative-pressure rooms easily and effectively within 24 hours, which is really the simple, fast, and effective way for the transformation being applied.
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spelling pubmed-75210072020-10-14 Simplest Way to Establish COVID-19 Quarantine Observation Wards Within 24 Hours Huang, Wen-Nan Zhuang, Mao-Song Cheng, Tsun-Jen Hsiao, Shih-Huai Asia Pac J Public Health Short Communications Reducing nosocomial transmission within health care facilities is important, but the number of negative-pressure airborne infection isolation rooms for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) is limited. It is a daunting challenge to cope with a surge of suspected infectious patients in hospitals. We installed air exhaust fans on the windows to change the pressure direction within the wards rapidly. The best location for the fans was 90 cm from the floor and 90 cm from the edge of bed whether the indoor air conditioners were on or off. The noise level should be <60 dB(A) as per government regulations. General wards can be transformed into makeshift negative-pressure rooms easily and effectively within 24 hours, which is really the simple, fast, and effective way for the transformation being applied. SAGE Publications 2020-08-14 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7521007/ /pubmed/32795092 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1010539520947874 Text en © 2020 APJPH https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title_sort simplest way to establish covid-19 quarantine observation wards within 24 hours
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7521007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32795092
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1010539520947874
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