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HVAC Management in Health Facilities

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Indoor Air Quality in Healthcare Facilities

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The errors in the design, installation and maintenance of an air-conditioning system within a health facility appear to have consequences that are more serious and complex than those that can be generally hypothesized and verified in the case of residential facilities or offices. This is also due to the presence in hospitals of patients with immune system deficiency. The use of a risk matrix can help to evaluate and better manage the HVAC (Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning) system in healthcare facilities, also allowing to answer questions relating the need to clean the air-conditioning systems. In fact, the latter is associated not only with the reduction of microorganisms, but also with the risk of spreading microorganisms and chemical particles in the environment.

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  1. Public Health Institute, Hygiene Section, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo Francesco Vito, 1, 00168, Rome, Italy

    Umberto Moscato, Alice Borghini & Adele Anna Teleman

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  1. Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Stefano Capolongo

  2. Department of Environment and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

    Gaetano Settimo

  3. Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Marco Gola

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Moscato, U., Borghini, A., Teleman, A.A. (2017). HVAC Management in Health Facilities. In: Capolongo, S., Settimo, G., Gola, M. (eds) Indoor Air Quality in Healthcare Facilities. SpringerBriefs in Public Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49160-8_9

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