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dc.contributor.authorCao, Guangyu
dc.contributor.authorKvammen, Ingeborg
dc.contributor.authorHatten, Thea Amalie Solberg
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Yixian
dc.contributor.authorStenstad, Liv-Inger
dc.contributor.authorKiss, Gabriel
dc.contributor.authorSkogås, Jan Gunnar
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-18T10:02:11Z
dc.date.available2021-03-18T10:02:11Z
dc.date.created2020-08-12T13:38:48Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn2666-1233
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2734121
dc.description.abstractAt present, laminar airflow (LAF) systems and mixing ventilation (MV) systems are two commonly used ventilation solutions for operating rooms (ORs) to ensure the required indoor air quality. However, recent studies have shown that there is little difference in the prevalence of surgical site infection (SSI) for the LAF systems and MV systems. The objective of this study was to compare the performance of an LAF system with an MV system in ORs at St. Olavs hospital, Norway. In this study, all the experimental measurements were conducted in real ORs with LAF and MV systems. This study found that the air velocity above the surgical incision is approximately two times higher in the OR with LAF than that in the OR with MV. The use of surgical lamps and different airflow patterns may contribute to the different surgical microenvironment of ORs with LAF and MV.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleExperimental measurements of surgical microenvironments in two operating rooms with laminar airflow and mixing ventilation systemsen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.source.journalEnergy and Built Environmenten_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbenv.2020.08.003
dc.identifier.cristin1822989
cristin.ispublishedfalse
cristin.fulltextpostprint


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