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Transport of Contaminated Agents in Hospital Wards - Exposure Control with a Personalized Healthcare Ventilation System: Numerical Study
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Civil and Architectural Engineering, Sustainable Buildings.
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Civil and Architectural Engineering, Sustainable Buildings.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7032-3049
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Civil and Architectural Engineering, Sustainable Buildings.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9361-1796
2021 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Contaminated agents in hospital wards are the source of nosocomial infections known as hospital-acquired infection (HAI) or healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Ventilation plays an essential role in the spreading and minimizing the transport of airborne infectious diseases such as Covid-19 and SARS in the hospital ward. The goal of this study is to explore elimination strategies for an efficient removal of contaminated agents, targeting the influence of using local air diffuser and exhaust. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technique was used to model the airflow field and contamination distribution in the ward environment. Simulated results showed that the bacteria spread from a patient confined to his bed was limited and under certain conditions significantly eliminated. Consequently, a relatively high efficiency of particle removal and a moderated transmission were obtained. Thus, this strategy is able to shorten the exposure time of patient and healthcare staff, as a result, mitigating cross-infection risk at the hospital.

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2021.
Keywords [en]
Ventilation system, Computational fluid dynamics, cross-infection risk
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Other Civil Engineering
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Civil and Architectural Engineering, Fluid and Climate Theory
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-300105OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-300105DiVA, id: diva2:1587520
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Healthy Buildings 2021 - Europe, June 21- 23, 2021, Oslo, Norway
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QC 20210928

Available from: 2021-08-24 Created: 2021-08-24 Last updated: 2022-06-25Bibliographically approved

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Chen, Shih-YingSadeghian, ParastooSadrizadeh, Sasan

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