Tag: HEPA ventilation

Bioburden levels during total joints in ORs complying with US ventilation specifications

Editor's Note This study from Baptist Health-Fort Smith, Arkansas, finds that the low-energy consumption ventilation system specified for in US operating rooms produces different zones of sterile protection from airborne microbe carrying particles (MCP) during total joint arthroplasties. The predominant source of MCPs are from personnel in the OR—an average…

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By: Judy Mathias
June 21, 2023
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