ABSTRACT
Bedding has been constructed with a vapour-permeable waterproof fabric that is impermeable to house dust mite antigen (Der p1). Der p1 levels per gram of mattress dust after 12 weeks' use of the new covering were 1% of levels in control samples from mattresses cleaned conventionally.
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Antigens/analysis , Asthma/immunology , Bedding and Linens , Dust/adverse effects , Mites/immunology , Polyurethanes , Tick Control/methods , Adolescent , Adult , Animals , Child , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Humans , Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic , Time FactorsABSTRACT
The problem of patients in isolation becoming disconnected from their ventilator systems is a serious one, as the closed doors of an isolation room usually prevent hospital personnel outside the room from hearing or seeing standard ventilator alarms To overcome this potentially life-threatening problem, we modified a standard external low-pressure alarm to accept a simple, inexpensively built remote warning system. In use on 23 patients in our intensive care unit over a 7-month period, this system proved to be a reliable and cost-effective means of warning hospital personnel of possibly life-threatening ventilator disconnects on isolated patients.
