Greater attention to flexible hospital designs and ventilated clinical facilities are a pre-requisite for coping with the next airborne pandemic

Hilary Humphreys; Margreet Vos; Elisabeth Presterl; Markus Hell

doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2023.05.014

Greater attention to flexible hospital designs and ventilated clinical facilities are a pre-requisite for coping with the next airborne pandemic

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2023 Oct;29(10):1229-1231. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2023.05.014. Epub 2023 May 12.

Authors

Hilary Humphreys¹, Margreet Vos², Elisabeth Presterl³, Markus Hell⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland; ESCMID Study Group for Nosocomial Infections (ESGNI), Switzerland. Electronic address: hhumphreys@rcsi.ie.
² Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus MC University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; ESCMID Study Group for Nosocomial Infections (ESGNI), Switzerland.
³ Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, Vienna General Hospital, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ESCMID Study Group for Nosocomial Infections (ESGNI), Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Clinical Microbiology and Hygiene, Medilab, Academic Teaching Laboratories of the Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria; ESCMID Study Group for Nosocomial Infections (ESGNI), Switzerland.

PMID: 37182640
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2023.05.014

No abstract available

Keywords: Aerosols; Air-controlled ventilation; Airborne transmission; COVID-19; Droplets; Hospital design; Pandemic; SARS-CoV-2; Single rooms; Working environment.

MeSH terms

Adaptation, Psychological
COVID-19*
Hospital Design and Construction*
Humans
Pandemics / prevention & control
Respiratory Aerosols and Droplets