A COMPARISON BETWEEN MEASURED VALUES OF AIRBORNE VIABLE PARTICLES AND THEORETICAL CALCULATED VALUES WITH THE DILUTION PRINCIPLE IN OPERATING ROOMS EQUIPPED WITH LOW VELOCITIES UNIDIRECTIONAL AIRFLOW SYSTEMS
Authors:
Bengt Ljungqvist , Berit Reinmüller, Pedro GandraKeywords:
Ultraclean operating rooms, unidirectional air flow (UDF), dilution principle, microbiological air cleanliness, colony-forming unit (CFU)Abstract:
Many of the recently installed unidirectional air flow systems for operating rooms have low velocities (≤0.3m/s). Measurements of airborne aerobic colony-forming units were performed in such operating rooms during on-going surgery. Results show that, during on-going surgery, calculations with the dilution principle is valid in the surgical zone.Article:
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