Purifiers for Healthcare Industry by IQAir

Healthcare Industry - pollution control issues, particulate pollutant control as well as chemical compound control. "Click here" for Article.

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IQAir ® GC ™ Series - Never before has gaseous contaminant control been more compact, versatile and affordable than with the IQAir ® GC ™ advanced filtration systems.

A broad range of gas phase filter cartridges allows customized control of almost any gaseous pollutant or odor problem. In Stock

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For more higher pollutant level environment applications (nearly twice the media as the GC ™ Series):

IQAir ® GCX ™ Series - Never before has gaseous contaminant control been more compact, versatile, powerful and affordable than with the IQAir ® GCX advanced filtration systems.

A broad range of gas phase filter cartridges allows customized control of almost any gaseous pollutant or odor problem in hospitals, healthcare industry, commercial and light industrial environments. In Stock

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Decentralized Airborne Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities

Airborne pathogens in health-care environments pose a particular risk to immunocompromised
patients who may inhale fungal spores, bacteria and viruses. Airborne microorganisms can not only complicate recovery from surgery, but can also lead to life-threatening infections,costing health-care services hundreds of millions every year.

Hospital-acquired aspergillosis for example has been recognized increasingly as a cause of severe illness and high mortality in immunocompromised individuals, e.g. patients undergoing chemotherapy and/or organ or bone marrow transplants. In the light of the marked increase in nosocomial infections over recent years, many of which are caused by drug-resistant pathogens, the importance of using high-efficiency air filtration systems beyond the confines of so-called “critical areas” (such as operation theatres) has once again been emphasized. Both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), advise that, wherever possible, preventive infection control measures should be implemented to reduce the risk of nosocomial infections.

Portable HEPA-Systems can Effectively Reduce Infection Risk
One such preventive control measure is the filtration of the air within a susceptible patient´s room. Such devices have shown to effectively reduce the concentration of aspergillus spores (which range in size from 1.5 µm to 6 µm) to below measurable levels. Even tiny airborne particles such as viruses and bacteria can be removed from the air with over 99% efficiency by advanced HEPA air cleaning systems.The CDC recommends that only HEPA-filters that have “a demonstrated and documented minimum removal efficiency of 99.97% of particles = 0.3 µm in diameter should be used for infection control purposes. Very few HEPA-systems provide this efficiency guarantee.

IQAir ® – Intelligent mobile HEPA-Filter Systems
A Swiss group of companies with the experience of 40 years of air filtration has specialized on the production of high-efficiency filtration systems for the medical sector. The name of the series is IQAir ® . It offers a wide range of mobile and stationary air cleaning systems for a multitude of applications in hospitals.

The IQAir ® Series consists of several modular filter systems, each optimized to deal with a different range of airborne contaminants or aiming to fulfil a specific air hygiene requirement.The IQAir ® Chemisorber for instance has the primary function to filter aldehydes, while the IQAir ® Cleanroom H13 is dedicated to the removal of airborne microoganisms (e.g. bacteria, viruses & spores).

Pressure Differences Enable the Isolation of Airborne Pathogens
The strategy of recirculating indoor air through a high performance filter can be optimized by creating and maintaining pressure differentials between two adjacent rooms. IQAir ® systems are capable of creating positive or negative pressure environments with the help of special ducting adaptors. As a result, a room can be equipped with positive or negative pressure within minutes.

The Application of Positive and Negative Pressure Environments
In the case of immuno-compromised individuals, the patient should be placed in a room with a positive pressure to prevent the inflow of contaminated air. If a patient carries a contagious disease (e.g. tuberculosis) that may be transmitted through the air, a negative pressure environment should be created to prevent spreading airborne microorganisms beyond the patient´s room.

Individually Tested and Certified
To guarantee filtration efficiency and air delivery, the Swiss manufacturers have taken an uncompromising approach: Each IQAir ® device is individually tested and certified. For the IQAir ® Cleanroom H13, for example, that means a guaranteed filtration efficiency of 99.97% for particles of = 0.3 µm and a certified maximum air delivery of at least 400 m3 per hour at maximum fan speed.

Flexible Point-of-Use Application
As IQAir ® systems work independently and decentralized, each unit´s air delivery and timer programmer can be adjusted to suit the requirements of the room where it is located. The portable nature of the device also permits quick relocation or supplementary filtration, if needed. The variety of IQAir ® models available, allows matching the most suitable filtration technology to the specific indoor air quality problem at hand.

Integrated Microchip Calculates When it´s time to Change Filters
With regard to maintenance and filter change, the IQAir ® Series offers several advanced features. Every model is equipped with its very own microchip- controlled filter life monitor, taking air pollution load, actual usage and fan speed into account. When a filter element reaches the end of its useful life, an LED indicator will light up on the IQAir ® ´s control panel, informing staff that it is time to change filters. LED on the control panel turns red when it’s time to change a filter.

Quick and Safe Filter Replacement
One of the most attractive features of IQAir ® systems is the ease with which filters can be replaced. Whether the system is wall-mounted or floor-based, a patented system allows quick and safe access to all filter elements without the need for tools. In practice this means that the “down-time” of the filtration system, and consequently the build-up of pathogens in the room, are kept to an absolute minimum.

High Performance Need not Mean Expensive
In spite of the array of advanced features, the cost of IQAir ® systems is only a fraction of that of centralized air cleaning systems. As a result, IQAir ® systems enable health-care facilities to add to, or extend airborne hygiene measures to areas and patients which so far were not within the scope of an advanced airborne infection control strategy.

Advantages of IQAir ® Systems:

Reliable and Certified Performance
• Guaranteed and certified HEPA filtration efficiency of 99.97% for airborne particles at 0.3 µm reduces risk of disease transmission through infectious microorganisms
• Guaranteed and certified air flow rate
• Reliable non-stop operation

Decentralized Operation
• Fast and economic installation and maintenance
• Individual accommodation of special hygiene requirements
• Rapid expansion of air hygiene area and short response
time to epidemics
• Individually adjustable for various areas of application

Installation Within Minutes
• Minimal installation cost and time expenditure
• Minimum interruption of daily routine
• No increase of infection risk as would otherwise be likely with elaborate construction measures

Use of Proved Filtration Techniques
• HEPA-filtration of aerosols and microorganisms
• Chemisorption for filtration of chemical substances
• Adsorption for filtration of gases and odors

IQAir ® Accessories
• Various accessories enable the creation of positive and negative pressure areas, wall mounting and capturing of odors and pollutants right at the source.