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- Title
MONITORING THE AIR MICROBIOLOGIC QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE UNITS.
- Authors
SIRBU, Dana; CURSEU, Daniela; POPA, Monica; POPA, Marcel Sabin
- Abstract
Environmental monitoring is imperative in health care units. The aim of this study is to give a characterization for the level of air contamination in different departments of a county hospital, under a variety of normally encountered conditions. Furthermore we want to discuss some requirements for a monitoring system in Romanian hospitals. Based on 768 samples, the mean bacterial count from air ranged from 22CFU/m³ in operating rooms to 3149 CFU/m³ in patient rooms; 34% from all samples exceeds the national target of total bacteria, 32.2 % of samples were gram-positive cocci and from these 15.5 % were hemolytic. in conclusion, the hospital airborne contamination was greater than expected, and it was influenced by human activity, ventilation considerations, and gross surface contamination.
- Subjects
ENVIRONMENTAL engineering of buildings; ENVIRONMENTAL engineering; ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring; PUBLIC hospitals; DAMPNESS in buildings; INDUSTRIAL contamination; AIR conditioning
- Publication
Annals of DAAAM & Proceedings, 2009, p239
- ISSN
1726-9679
- Publication type
Article