Are they safe, especially with this flu situation? Ours emit a dirty carpet odor when they are in use. I'm posing the question internally also.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>The hospital vacuum cleaner: mechanism for redistributing microbial contaminants. - Brown DG - <CITE>J Environ Health</CITE> - 01-JAN-1980; 42(4): 192-6 (MEDLINE is the source for the citation and abstract of this record )
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Carpeting patient care units in acute care hospitals is increasingly common. While the safety of carpeting has been heavily debated, there has been little epidemiological data to document risk to the hospitalized patient. With the report of a two-year study documenting human contamination and potential colonization by microorganisms spread from hospital carpeting, a need was established to document modes of transmission. The objective of this study was to define the potential of hospital vacuums for dispersing particles of a size comparable to the microbial cell. Both filter efficiency and vacuum exhaust turbulence are evaluated. Results document that of eight units claiming high efficiency filtration, none was capable of meeting advertising claims. In addition, exhaust air velocities for one unit reached 175 feet per minute at 30 inches above the floor.
Citation:
The hospital vacuum cleaner: mechanism for redistributing microbial contaminants.
Brown DG - <CITE>J Environ Health</CITE> - 01-JAN-1980; 42(4): 192-6
MEDLINE is the source for the citation and abstract of this record
NLM Citation ID:
10245501 (PubMed ID)
Full Source Title:
<CITE>Journal of environmental health</CITE>
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Language:
English
Authors:
Brown DG; Schatzle K; Gable T
.2.2 Invasive mycoses
The outbreak investigation revealed that a contaminated vacuum cleaner used in the ward dispersed a bioaerosol; the Aspergillus concentration close to that vacuum cleaner was 62 CFU/m<SUP>3</SUP> when it was in use, compared to 0 to 6 CFU/m<SUP>3</SUP> elsewhere in the building (Anderson et al. 1996).
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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>The hospital vacuum cleaner: mechanism for redistributing microbial contaminants. - Brown DG - <CITE>J Environ Health</CITE> - 01-JAN-1980; 42(4): 192-6 (MEDLINE is the source for the citation and abstract of this record )
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<!-- ---------------------------------- --><!-- SCCS Medlars.tmpl @(#) /dvlpmnt/sccs/prod/mdc/tmplt/journal/s.Medlars.tmpl 1.3 09/01/08 -->Abstract:
Carpeting patient care units in acute care hospitals is increasingly common. While the safety of carpeting has been heavily debated, there has been little epidemiological data to document risk to the hospitalized patient. With the report of a two-year study documenting human contamination and potential colonization by microorganisms spread from hospital carpeting, a need was established to document modes of transmission. The objective of this study was to define the potential of hospital vacuums for dispersing particles of a size comparable to the microbial cell. Both filter efficiency and vacuum exhaust turbulence are evaluated. Results document that of eight units claiming high efficiency filtration, none was capable of meeting advertising claims. In addition, exhaust air velocities for one unit reached 175 feet per minute at 30 inches above the floor.
Citation:
The hospital vacuum cleaner: mechanism for redistributing microbial contaminants.
Brown DG - <CITE>J Environ Health</CITE> - 01-JAN-1980; 42(4): 192-6
MEDLINE is the source for the citation and abstract of this record
NLM Citation ID:
10245501 (PubMed ID)
Full Source Title:
<CITE>Journal of environmental health</CITE>
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Language:
English
Authors:
Brown DG; Schatzle K; Gable T
.2.2 Invasive mycoses
The outbreak investigation revealed that a contaminated vacuum cleaner used in the ward dispersed a bioaerosol; the Aspergillus concentration close to that vacuum cleaner was 62 CFU/m<SUP>3</SUP> when it was in use, compared to 0 to 6 CFU/m<SUP>3</SUP> elsewhere in the building (Anderson et al. 1996).
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