Solving Indoor Airborne Disease Transmission Problems
Solving Indoor Airborne Disease Transmission Problems
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Solving Indoor Airborne Disease Transmission Problems
Steven Welty LEED® ap, cie, cafs August 1, 2011
Figure 1. Hospital toilet aerosolization event.
The author describes how toilet flushes aerosolize germs sending them airborne to soar around and infect their next victim(s) because bathrooms are designed backwards. Learn novel ways to control and clean bathroom air to help control airborne disease transmission problems. So feel free to hold your nose as you learn about how you can help protect people’s health within your client’s buildings.
Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), Clostridium-Difficile (C-Difficile), and Norovirus (NV) are floating around your hospital and won’t stop infecting your patients, staff, and even visitors with those dreaded hospital-acquired infections (HAIs). Your infection control people have hit a brick wall and can’t stop the infection rates nor prevent periodic outbreaks that can last several months. The hospital’s CFO is tearing his hair out because major insurance companies and Medicaid/Medicare are no longer reimbursing for HAIs. Ouch. By focusing on what impact HVAC systems, pressurization, filtration, and sterilization technologies can have on airborne germs, you can proactively (or reactively) address these problems. There are rather simple explanations to previously flummoxing airborne disease problems, so relax and read on.
AIRBORNE MRSA, C-DIFFICILE, AND NOROVIRUS: THE FEARSOME THREESOME
The pestilences swarming hospitals worldwide are ever-mutating super-bacteria like MRSA and C- Diff. NV is a highly infective virion (virus), and studies have shown that you only need one NV virion to get infected. Many infection prevention specialists continue to be thwarted in reducing these pathogen’s infection rates because the current guidelines are to wash your hands and to wear gloves and a gown in order to have protected contact with patients, all of which do not directly address airborne disease transmission.
The critical questions to slice and dice on airborne disease transmission are:
