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AssigneeTechnical University of Denmark
InventorsArsen Krikor Melikov, Shengwei Zhu, Zhecho Dimitrov Bolashikov
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Disclosed is an air distribution control unit or a filtration/ventilation unit which is portable and/or can be mounted on or integrated in furniture e.g. as a cabinet of at the head region of a bed. The filtration/ventilation unit cleanses air from a person/patient by aspirating the person's/patient's exhalation air into the filtration/ventilation unit. To construct an at least partly isolated area around the patient, filtered air can be directed e.g. vertically out of the filtration/ventilation unit to perform an air curtain. Use of the filtration/ventilation unit reduces the risk of dissipation of air-borne diseases and health hazardous matter, and reduces the amount of air to ventilate a room with patients.
A method for partly isolating an area of a bed having a head region, said method comprising:
A bed with at least one filtration/ventilation unit located at least at a region of a bed, where said at least one filtration/ventilation unit is an integrated part of said bed or said at least one filtration/ventilation unit is releasably mounted on said bed such that said at least one filtration/ventilation unit can be repositioned together with said bed and be raised and lowered together with said region, said at least one filtration/ventilation unit being adapted to isolate a subject lying in the bed from the surroundings by generating at least one air curtain of upwardly flowing cleansed air, and being adapted to aspirate and clean contaminated air from said region.
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