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Door-opening motion can potentially lead to a transient breakdown in negative-pressure isolation conditions: the importance of vorticity and buoyancy airflows.
The Journal of hospital infection - 1 Dec 2005
Tang J W, Eames I, Li Y, Taha Y A, Wilson P, Bellingan G, Ward K N, Breuer J
Abstract excerpt
A patient with severe chickenpox was admitted to a negative-pressure isolation room. He remained sedated, intubated and mechanically ventilated throughout his admission. He was managed only by nurses immune to chickenpox. A non-immune male nurse occasionally handed equipment through the doorway, without entering the room. Ten days later, he also developed chickenpox. Sequencing of viruses from the patient and...
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