Air Quality Monitoring During High-Level Biocontainment Ground Transport: Observations From Two Operational Exercises.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Stretcher transport isolators provide mobile, high-level biocontainment outside the hospital for patients with highly infectious diseases, such as Ebola virus disease. Air quality within this confined space may pose human health risks.

Methods

Ambient air temperature, relative humidity, and CO₂ concentration were monitored within an isolator during 2 operational exercises with healthy volunteers, including a ground transport exercise of approximately 257 miles. In addition, failure of the blower unit providing ambient air to the isolator was simulated. A simple compartmental model was developed to predict CO₂ and H₂O concentrations within the isolator.

Results

In both exercises, CO₂ and H₂O concentration

SUBMITTER: Dang A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8712623 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature