Isolation Rooms and Other Pressurized Health Care Environments

The recent rise in the number of reported cases of tuberculosis (TB) and the number of immune-compromised patients (burns, transplants, AIDS) has shifted a high degree of attention to isolation rooms and other pressurized spaces within a healthcare facility. Phoenix Controls supplies the most accurate and reliable solution for these environments through the use of highly accurate, stable, field independent airflow controllers (venturi valves) that work through a fixed volumetric offset approach. Effective room monitoring is afforded by providing flexibility to monitor only those conditions as desired, and present the information in a clear and concise manner -- using industry standard terminology and icons, rather that confusing pressure scales and digital "readouts."

Both ASHRAE and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have recommended guidelines for the establishment of proper pressures within a healthcare space. The have also made poignant observations about the use of pressure-sensing devices to establish these relationships. Phoenix Controls' products for this market have been developed in strict adherence to these various guidelines. They use a volumetric tracking approach to pressurization control rather than the differential pressure sensing methodology defined as problematic by ASHRAE and CDC.

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