Negative Pressure and Airborne Diseases
Negative Pressure Rooms
As most of us may know, hospitals have various rooms for housing patients with different illnesses. Some of these rooms are meant to house Airborne Infections and keep them from spreading. To help keep these airborne diseases from spreading, hospitals maintain negative pressure in certain rooms and positive pressure in others. Negative room pressure, according to Wikipedia, is a technique hospitals use to keep airborne infections from spreading from one room to another. By having negative air pressure, it allows air to flow into these rooms, but not escape it. Because of this, It helps to keep these airborne infections isolated. Also, the positive pressure rooms allows for air to escape to the negative pressure rooms.
HVAC Filters
Now, we know this may sound complicated and you may ask yourself, how is this created? Well, it’s by having an HVAC system with all the right moving parts. Hospitals need a proper HVAC system. This helps drive clean air in through a multi-step filtration process and allow air circulate around the buildings. However, the infected air has to eventually be vented out. To keep the surrounding air “safe,” it must pass through another filtration process. The filtration process could take numerous steps before air is allowed to be ventilated out. A proper change-out schedule can help keep your filtration process clean and efficient. Engineered Filtration Systems provides quality air filters for numerous Hospital and Medical Center applications. These filters can include:
- EFS HEPA Filters
- Vbank Filters
- Rigid Pocket Filters
- and More…
Please contact EFS any time for a full list of these filters or to place an order.
Airborne Diseases
With the scare of Covid-19 and the global pandemic it has caused, now is more important than ever to keep all HVAC systems working as efficiently as possible. So, to help reduce the spread of all diseases, people are coming together to help find more solutions. Also, we are working harder to provide you with quality air filtration. Although the Coronavirus pandemic has raised more awareness, these are steps should have always been taken. Keeping all airborne diseases from spreading. Always monitor the level of positive and negative pressure rooms and make sure your filters are changed out regularly.