Hospital Isolation Rooms | 合法醫療器材資訊網

Sometimesisolationroomsusenegativeairpressure.Thishelpspreventairbornediseases(suchastuberculosisorflu)fromescapingtheroomandinfecting ...

If your doctor wants you to be kept away, or isolated, from other patients while you receive medical care, you may be in a special hospital room. This is called an isolation room.

You may be isolated because you have an infection (often in the skin, lungs or airways, or intestines) that can be spread to others. Or your condition makes you more easily infected by others.

Sometimes isolation rooms use negative air pressure. This helps prevent airborne diseases (such as tuberculosis or flu) from escaping the room and infecting other people. A machine pulls...