Air-conditioning guidelines for healthcare facilities during the covid pandemic

  • Dr. Ashutosh Sharma MBBS MD, Professor, Department of Hospital Administration, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharastra, India
  • Dr. Ramesh Kumar K MBBS, Resident, Department of Hospital Administration, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharastra, India
  • Dr. Saroj K Patnaik MBBS, MHA, Professor, Department of Hospital Administration, Armed Forces Medical College Pune, Maharashtra, India
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17511/ijmrr.2021.i02.10
Keywords: Air-conditioning, COVID-19, Isolation rooms, Negative pressure

Abstract

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease spreads primarily through respiratory droplets, physical contact and contact with surfaces as well as fomites. Isolation of patients in hospitals and quarantine of contacts in separate facilities are the mainstay of outbreak containment. This pandemic has brought forward various challenges to the hospital administrators, one of the most important being air-conditioning of hospitals in the time of this pandemic.

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DOI: 10.17511/ijmrr.2021.i02.10
Published: 2021-04-30
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Dr. Ashutosh Sharma, Dr. Ramesh Kumar K, Dr. Saroj K Patnaik. Air-conditioning guidelines for healthcare facilities during the covid pandemic. Int J Med Res Rev [Internet]. 2021Apr.30 [cited 2024Nov.22];9(2):109-14. Available from: https://ijmrr.medresearch.in/index.php/ijmrr/article/view/1273
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