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Sat Apr 14 15:06:28 BST 2007

In a message dated 4/14/2007 5:48:47 AM Central Daylight Time,  
kmattox at aol.com writes:

For  example the space suits for hospitals for potential bioterrorism was 
bought by  every hospital. Just when is the suit required and for whatand how 
long is  unknown.  An example of a knee jerk  reactioin.  

even better was the system that one major metropolitan teaching hospital  
developed using a grant...

Beautiful decon facility, able to handle 40 walking and 10 stretcher  
patients per hour, with a 10000 gallon holding tank to be able to operate  without 
discharging into the sewer system for 9 hours...and full 'Class B'  supplied air 
garments for the folks doing the decon work....

all well and good until you find out that the air supplied for the Class B  
systems was from the *industrial air supply* at the hospital, not breathing  
air...

It is left as an exercise to the reader to consider what contaminants might  
be in industrial air that would not be filtered out by a simple separator  
filter...hint: Breathing Air quality systems use *oil less* compressors..

ck
Charles S. Krin, DO FAAFP

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