Door-opening motion can potentially lead to a transient breakdown in negative-pressure isolation conditions: The importance of vorticity and buoyancy airflows

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 283-286

  Tang, Julian W ^a,f   Eames, I ^b   Li, Y ^c   Taha, Y A ^d   Wilson, P ^e   Bellingan, G ^b   Ward, K N ^a   Breuer, J ^d  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^f CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Chickenpox; Negative pressure isolation room; Nosocomial; Transmission; Varicella

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CHICKENPOX; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; MATERIALS HANDLING; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NEGATIVE PRESSURE ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; NURSE; PATIENT CARE; SEDATION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 29444455397     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2005.05.017     Document Type: Article

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