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A Cfd Study Of Operation Room Air Conditioning: Air Curtain Performance, Spencer Lee Boer
A Cfd Study Of Operation Room Air Conditioning: Air Curtain Performance, Spencer Lee Boer
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An operation room is a critical environment when it comes to the safety of patients undergoing surgery. There are a lot of factors that go into reducing Surgical Site Infections (SSI) following a surgery. This comes in the form of cleaning standards, surgical practices, but also environment controls. The characteristics of airflow within an operation room are related to the risk of an SSI. Some of these factors are temperature, velocity, and turbulent air around an open wound which could increase the chance of bacteria or other particles entering the very vulnerable patient. As clean room standards continue to be …