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negative pressure isolation rooms

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negative pressure isolation rooms,
isolation rooms used for patients with an airborne transmitted disease. Airflow goes from the corridor into the patient's room. As patient's room air is exhausted, it is vented to the outside.


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The Neonatal ICU has 40 beds with six negative pressure isolation rooms.
Where negative pressure isolation rooms and/or particulate filter masks were unavailable, guidance was provided on alternatives.
Wireless communications, RFID tracking, anti-microbial surfaces, negative pressure isolation rooms, single patient rooms, and emergency department entrance alternatives are used to reduce infections, which claim up to 100,000 lives every year.
 
 
 
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