A computer evaluation of ventilation performance in a negative-pressure operating theater

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 913-918

  Chow, Tin Tai ^a   Kwan, Anne ^b   Lin, Zhang ^a   Bai, Wei ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNITED CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DISPERSION; EVALUATION; HONG KONG; NEGATIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; OPERATING ROOM; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPERATING ROOMS; VENTILATION;

EID: 33750040567     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000237404.60614.24     Document Type: Article

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