Innovative Airflow Solutions for Infection Prevention in Healthcare Settings | Lunch & Learn

HAI (Hospital Acquired Infections) and SSI’s (Surgical Site infections) are a growing, costly concern within our healthcare facilities. This presentation will explain how control of the airborne environment is a critical component to aseptic design in operating rooms, isolation rooms, patient rooms, and healthcare environments overall. Controlling the airborne environment includes not only airflow direction, speed, temperature, humidity, and air change rates but also requires precise and accurate environmental monitoring.

Learning Objectives: 

After this presentation, the audience will leave with an understanding of the following: 

• How the environment impacts the risk of HAI and SSIs in hospital procedure environments
• How the addition of environmental quality information can be used to support quality improvement metrics, investigation of adverse event root causes, and provide insight for infection preventionists
• How a real time indoor environmental quality (IEQ) Surveillance Solution and predictive modeling software can provide operating room monitoring and risk scoring and advise the surgical team whether conditions to operate are favorable (clean) or not (higher risk of infections)
• How our innovative solution with in-room sensing can help reduce the risk of airborne contaminants that can cause HAIs and SSIs
  Research based considerations and best practices for aseptic HVAC design and how it compares to minimum code compliance currently used
• Opportunities to safely reduce energy consumption and operational costs without compromising air quality
• How our approach can support the hospital in its compliance accreditation audits – The Joint Commission/CMS

Speaker:

David Rausch 
Senior Business Development Manager
Phoenix Controls 

David Rausch joined Phoenix Controls in 2006 and is currently the business development manager for the Healthcare and Research Markets. He has been involved in many aspects of product management, product design and project design of specialty mechanical devices and controls within the Healthcare and Research industry for over 20 years. As an active member and distinguished speaker of ASHRAE, he has held executive positions in TC 9.10 (Lab Systems) and was a past Chair for TC 2.2 (Plant and Animal). He now is an associate member of TC 9.6 (Healthcare) and TC 9.11 (Clean Rooms) and speaks at numerous critical environment conferences throughout the year. He has a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering at Old Dominion University and an Associate's degree in Applied Science / Mechanical Engineering from SUNY Morrisville, NY