Nurse odor perception in various Japanese hospital settings

Horiguchi, Masami; Shudo, Erika; Sato, Kumiko; Nakamura, Miri; Sai, Wakana; Ohinata, Terumi

doi:10.1016/j.ijnss.2015.08.009

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“…Most health care workers at some point encounter hospitalbased odours that are felt to be intolerable. 5 Studies have demonstrated that such physical distractions in the work environment can negatively impact the performance of health care professionals and teams. [29][30][31] This can lead to decreased communication and functioning, which can result in health care errors.…”

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“…Par-contre, il n'y avait pas de différence significative entre les agents. Le baume à lèvres aux cerises était le produit préféré (29 participants), suivi du dentifrice à la menthe (22), du mastisol ( 14), de la teinture de benzoine (10), et finalement du contr ôle (5). Conclusions : Tous les produits testés ont démontré une efficacité similaire, celle-ci supérieure comparée au contr ôle.…”

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“…All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008 (5). The study was approved by the University of British Columbia Children's & Women's Research Ethics Board, approval #H16-01416.…”

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“…2 Studies have demonstrated that health care workers find hospital odours problematic. 3,4 Even more concerning is that many nurses find such odours in the hospital intolerable, 5 which may cause health care workers to distance themselves from their patients. 6 This shows a clear need for reducing the burden of noxious smells encountered by health care professionals.…”

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Something Stinks! Finding Ways to Manage Noxious Odours in the Operating Room and Other Clinical Settings A Randomized Controlled Trial

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Objectives: The hospital can be saturated with noxious smells. Anecdotally, medical staff apply products to surgical masks to lessen the impact of these smells. This study aimed to determine the odour-masking ability of 4 inexpensive and convenient products. Methods: A randomized, single-blinded crossover study was conducted in Vancouver, Canada. Participants, 19 to 30 years old, were invited to participate. Participants with active allergies, upper respiratory tract infection, alteration to sense of smell, or failure of olfactory screen were excluded from the study. An experimental odour was used in lieu of a noxious surgical odour. After smelling the experimental odour without barriers, participants were re-exposed to the odour using 5 surgical masks in randomized order. Each mask was lined with a test product (cherry lip balm, tincture of benzoin, Mastisol, mint toothpaste, and control [plain mask]). Participants rated the effectiveness of products at masking the experimental odour from 0 to 100 (0 = completely ineffective, 100 = completely effective). Participants also rated the pleasantness of the products, recorded if the products made them feel unwell, and identified their preferred product overall. Results: Eighty participants were included in the study (33 male, 47 female), averaging 24.2 years of age. Mean odour-masking effectiveness for cherry lip balm was 66.5 (±24.6), tincture of benzoin: 62.6 (±25.0), Mastisol: 61.3 (±23.9), mint toothpaste: 57.5 (±27.4), and control: 21.9 (±21.8). All products performed better than the control ( P < .001), but there was no significant difference in performance between products. Cherry lip balm was the most preferred odour-masking product (29 participants), followed by mint toothpaste (22), Mastisol (14), tincture of benzoin (10), and control (5). Conclusions: All tested products demonstrated equivalent odour-masking abilities. If health care professionals choose to use an odour-masking product, they should consider their own olfactory preferences.

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“…An unpleasant odor in hospital wards is one of the most perplexing problems for indoor environments in Japan. An uncomfortable environment due to odor leads to a myriad of problems that contribute to the stress levels of patients, healthcare workers, and visitors [1]. Itakura and Mitsuda [2] surveyed nurses working in hospitals throughout the country, finding that more than 75% perceived a malodorous odor problem.…”

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Displacement ventilation with radiant panel for hospital wards: Measurement and prediction of the temperature and contaminant concentration profiles

Choi

Yamanaka

Sagara

et al. 2019

Building and Environment

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Displacement ventilation (DV) is known to provide high air quality and ventilation efficiency. With DV, a contaminant interface is formed in a room, and the air quality in the occupant zone below the contaminant interface height can be kept clean. This paper proposes a DV system to solve the serious odor problem in hospital wards. A vertical radiant panel that can be controlled individually is suggested as a complementary heating system. In order to study the influence of the panel on the displacement ventilated room, the temperature and contaminant concentration profiles were examined under different panel conditions: the distance between the panel and bed, height of the panel, surface temperature of the panel, and supply airflow rate. When the radiant panel was heated, it created a stronger plume than the human body, which produced contaminated air. When there was space between the radiant panel and bed, the contaminated air was locked up before reaching the ceiling. Personal exposure of a standing person was also investigated because the contaminated interface is generally lower than the breathing zone of a standing person with DV. The zonal model and improved zonal model were validated by a comparison of their results with the measured contaminant concentrations.

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Modification of Superabsorbent Polymer Granules and Fibers for Antimicrobial Efficacy and Malodor Control

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Contreras,

Clark

et al. 2024

ACS Omega

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Superabsorbent polymer (SAP) granules, typically used in personal care devices such as diapers, incontinence devices, hygiene pads, and wound dressings, and granular particles of zeolite and bentonite were each subjected to modification by exposure to solutions of 1-chloro-2,2,5,5tetramethyl-4-imidazolidinone (MC) in ethanol at room temperature. The air-dried granules showed newly acquired properties attributable to the presence of active chlorine (Cl + ). The treated particles effectively oxidized the malodorant 3-mercapto-3-methylbutanol (3M3MB). MC-treated granules inactivated urease, a microbial exoenzyme commonly involved in ammonia production. Modified SAP granules and superabsorbent fibers (SAFs) showed powerful antibacterial activity in an in vitro chronic wound model. The results suggest that processing of SAP granules and SAFs by this simple method at an industrial scale could add value to their widespread use in a variety of personal hygiene devices and specifically to the improvement of chronic wound care.

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Nurse odor perception in various Japanese hospital settings

Cited by 6 publications

References 22 publications

Something Stinks! Finding Ways to Manage Noxious Odours in the Operating Room and Other Clinical Settings A Randomized Controlled Trial

Something Stinks! Finding Ways to Manage Noxious Odours in the Operating Room and Other Clinical Settings A Randomized Controlled Trial

Displacement ventilation with radiant panel for hospital wards: Measurement and prediction of the temperature and contaminant concentration profiles

Modification of Superabsorbent Polymer Granules and Fibers for Antimicrobial Efficacy and Malodor Control

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