Vacuum exhausted isolation locker (VEIL) to reduce inpatient droplet/aerosol transmission during COVID-19 pandemic

The vacuum-exhausted isolation locker (VEIL) provides a safety barrier during the care of COVID-19 patients. The VEIL is a 175-L enclosure with exhaust ports to continuously extract air through viral particle filters connected to hospital suction. Our experiments show that the VEIL contains and exha...

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Autores principales: Gopesh, Tilvawala, Grant, Alex M., Wen, Jessica H., Wen, Teresa H., Criado-Hidalgo, Ernesto, Connacher, William J., Friend, James R., Morris, Timothy A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8712965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33427146
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1414
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author Gopesh, Tilvawala
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Criado-Hidalgo, Ernesto
Connacher, William J.
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description The vacuum-exhausted isolation locker (VEIL) provides a safety barrier during the care of COVID-19 patients. The VEIL is a 175-L enclosure with exhaust ports to continuously extract air through viral particle filters connected to hospital suction. Our experiments show that the VEIL contains and exhausts exhaled aerosols and droplets.
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spelling pubmed-87129652021-12-28 Vacuum exhausted isolation locker (VEIL) to reduce inpatient droplet/aerosol transmission during COVID-19 pandemic Gopesh, Tilvawala Grant, Alex M. Wen, Jessica H. Wen, Teresa H. Criado-Hidalgo, Ernesto Connacher, William J. Friend, James R. Morris, Timothy A. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Concise Communication The vacuum-exhausted isolation locker (VEIL) provides a safety barrier during the care of COVID-19 patients. The VEIL is a 175-L enclosure with exhaust ports to continuously extract air through viral particle filters connected to hospital suction. Our experiments show that the VEIL contains and exhausts exhaled aerosols and droplets. Cambridge University Press 2021-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8712965/ /pubmed/33427146 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1414 Text en © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Concise Communication
Gopesh, Tilvawala
Grant, Alex M.
Wen, Jessica H.
Wen, Teresa H.
Criado-Hidalgo, Ernesto
Connacher, William J.
Friend, James R.
Morris, Timothy A.
Vacuum exhausted isolation locker (VEIL) to reduce inpatient droplet/aerosol transmission during COVID-19 pandemic
title Vacuum exhausted isolation locker (VEIL) to reduce inpatient droplet/aerosol transmission during COVID-19 pandemic
title_full Vacuum exhausted isolation locker (VEIL) to reduce inpatient droplet/aerosol transmission during COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr Vacuum exhausted isolation locker (VEIL) to reduce inpatient droplet/aerosol transmission during COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Vacuum exhausted isolation locker (VEIL) to reduce inpatient droplet/aerosol transmission during COVID-19 pandemic
title_short Vacuum exhausted isolation locker (VEIL) to reduce inpatient droplet/aerosol transmission during COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort vacuum exhausted isolation locker (veil) to reduce inpatient droplet/aerosol transmission during covid-19 pandemic
topic Concise Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8712965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33427146
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1414
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