Walk-through survey report: control technology for negative pressure rooms at Community North Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana.

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• Personal Author:
  Hayden, Charles S. II
• Description:
  A study was made to document and evaluate effective technologies for the control of potential health hazards at Community North Hospital (SIC-8062), Indianapolis, Indiana. The study evaluated effective ways of maintaining negative pressure in isolation rooms used for infectious tuberculosis patients. Six isolation rooms were examined. Two rooms each had a two position switch which controlled the exhaust flow rate by positioning dampers in the exhaust duct. The switch cover plate labels for one room were incorrect, indicating a positive pressure condition when there was actually a negative pressure condition. All rooms exhausted directly to the outdoors. Each room provided at least 6 air changes per hour, and five of the six rooms had a minimum negative pressure of 0.001 inch of water.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Fires Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Safety
• Keywords:
  Bacterial-infections Control-technology Field-Study Health-care-personnel Infection-control NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Survey Region-5 Ventilation-systems
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHECTB21213a
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Studies ; Control Technology
• Place as Subject:
  Indiana ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DPSE - Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00221237
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, ECTB 212-13a, 1994 Jul; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  8062 - General medical & surgical hospitals - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f0b50ec99ef9a17caa9524579c48d72e42b9ee12ebd258a617b51a32fa626e29d3b8472428c3bd7216a8d58553097a651620ec93e5acebffb347debf2af8eef6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/180887/cdc_180887_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 237.40 KB ]