Three Misunderstandings for Design of Negative Pressure Ward

Xu, Zhonglin; Zhou, Bin

With the severe situation for the appearance of SARS and the fear for the resultant consequence, at the early stage of the outbreak event wards were reconstructed with a simple way. Newly constructed isolation wards were designed according to related literatures issued by CDC in 1994, and the corresponding requirements were elevated blindly. In literatures, the technical measures related to negative pressure isolation ward was inclined to adopt high negative pressure, air-tight door and all fresh air, where it was considered safe only to increase the negative pressure as high as possible, to install air-tight door without infiltration air and to provide all fresh air.