HVAC Management in Health Facilities

Moscato, Umberto; Borghini, Alice; Teleman, Adele Anna

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49160-8_9

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“…The quality of the air in an organ transplant hospital is a significant role to control infections. One of the most important steps to reduce hospital infection is regular fungal monitoring (12). The present study is the first research about fungal contaminations in an organ transplant hospital in Iran.…”

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confidence: 86%

Fungal Assessment of Indoor Air Quality in Wards and Operating Theatres in an Organ Transplantation Hospital

2018

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Fungal Assessment of Indoor Air Quality in Wards and Operating Theatres in an Organ Transplantation Hospital

2018

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“…), [24] and management strategies (i.e., the correct daily management of the ventilations systems, the reduction of costs, accounting for consumption, etc.) [25], with the aim of expanding the services supplied, the quality of healthcare services, obtaining greater organizational and working flexibility, and attempting to reduce the economic costs of healthcare facilities [26]. Gola et al have highlighted the factors that mostly affect a healing space, as Figure 1 synthetizes [40].…”

Section: Design and Management Aspects That Affect Indoor Air In Hospmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…), the quality of the spaces, and daily relationships with the organizational and management procedures of functional processes, that define the complex scenario of activities to be delivered [34,35]. The use of technological systems designed to perform and satisfy the various tasks in the best economic conditions, the technical furnishings, the level of use, the ordinary and extraordinary cleaning and sanitization activities (providing targeted actions according to the health status and the type of risk of patients, with different levels of contamination, and with microbiological monitoring), the maintenance, the procedures, and the organic management of the multiple routine prevention activities implemented and shared within the spaces, are all factors that contribute significantly to indoor air quality, and the health (this is even more concrete in view of the emergency period for SARS-CoV-2 virus that currently the population is experiencing) and satisfaction of all those users who attend the healing spaces [24,25,35].…”

Section: Design and Management Aspects That Affect Indoor Air In Hospmentioning

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The Relevance of Indoor Air Quality in Hospital Settings: From an Exclusively Biological Issue to a Global Approach in the Italian Context

2020

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In the context of the architectures for health, it is an utmost priority to operate a regular and continuous updating of quality, efficacy, and efficiency’s processes. In fact, health promotion and prevention take place through a proper management and design of healing spaces, in particular with regard to the most sensitive users. In recent decades, there has been increasing attention to indoor air quality in healthcare facilities. Nowadays, this issue must involve the implementation of a series of appropriate interventions, with a global approach of prevention and reduction of risk factors on users’ health, which allows, in addition to a correct management of hospital settings, the realization of concrete actions. To date, in Italy, despite the indoor air being taken in consideration in numerous activities and studies aimed at understanding both building hygiene and environmental aspects, the greatest difficulty is strongly related to the absence of an integrated national policy. The scope of the paper is to underline the relevance of indoor air quality in hospital settings, highlighting the need of procedures, protocols, and tools for strengthening and improving interventions for health prevention, protection, and promotion of users.

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“…In average, an adult inhales and exhales about 8 L of air per minute, at rest. Therefore, in a day, totally, he breathes about 11 thousand liters of air [19]. Unhealthy air quality can cause several health effects [20].…”

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“…Indoor air in buildings is affected by outdoor and, therefore, by factories in the neighbourhood, road traffic, parking lots, warehouses of irritating substances or waste, construction sites or any other source of air pollution itself [12]. Therefore, to guarantee safety and air quality, it should be considered carefully the location of the outer air intakes for ventilation systems and their filters [19,21].…”

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Reaching Sustainability in Healthcare: Strategies for a Healthy Indoor Air Quality in Healing Environments

Gola

Settimo

Capolongo

2020

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Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is one of the main topics in which governments are focusing. In architectures for health, several researches are reporting a growing number of data analysis and research works in order to improve users' health. Although many studies have been conducted related to the biological and physical risks, the chemical risks have been less investigated and only in some specific functional areas of the hospitals. Starting from some systematic reviews and research works, the paper aims to identify and list the best healthy practices for an adequate IAQ in inpatient wards. In particular, the handbook lists the solutions and strategies related to chemical pollution, starting from design and management, with a focus on (1) localization of hospitals and inpatient rooms, (2) hospital room, (3) microclimatic parameters, (4) ventilation systems, (5) materials and finishing, (6) furniture and equipment, (7) cleaning products and activities, (8) maintenance and (9) management activities, and (10) users and specific training of the workers. The multidisciplinary approach emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary knowledge and skills aimed to find solutions able to protect users' health status. The design and management decision-making, ranging from the adequate choices of construction site and hospital exposure, finishing materials, cleaning and maintenance activities, etc., which can affect the IAQ must be carried out based on scientific research and data analysis.

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HVAC Management in Health Facilities

Cited by 19 publications

References 11 publications

Fungal Assessment of Indoor Air Quality in Wards and Operating Theatres in an Organ Transplantation Hospital

Fungal Assessment of Indoor Air Quality in Wards and Operating Theatres in an Organ Transplantation Hospital

The Relevance of Indoor Air Quality in Hospital Settings: From an Exclusively Biological Issue to a Global Approach in the Italian Context

Reaching Sustainability in Healthcare: Strategies for a Healthy Indoor Air Quality in Healing Environments

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