Air Quality Check in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit

Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal

Treatments: Procedure: Method of endoscopic procedure

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03724565

bangairquality

Details and patient eligibility

About

Air pollution sources in indoor area are one of the main factors for reducing indoor air quality of locations. A gastrointestinal endoscopy unit consists of the following area: procedural, recovery areas, and area for a disinfection and cleaning for equipment. This area is frequently exposed to the gastrointestinal gas expelled from patients and gas from electrocoagulated tissue through carbonation or electrocoagulation of neoplasms. This can be potential harmful component for respiratory health not only to medical practitioners but also to the patients who undergo endoscopic examinations. However, there has been scare data for the air quality check in the endoscopic unit.

Full description

Air pollution sources in indoor area are one of the main factors for reducing indoor air quality of locations. A gastrointestinal endoscopy unit consists of the following area: procedural, recovery areas, and area for a disinfection and cleaning for equipment. This area is frequently exposed to the gastrointestinal gas expelled from patients and gas from electrocoagulated tissue through carbonation or electrocoagulation of neoplasms (procedure of endoscopic submucosal dissection, endoscopic mucosal resection, etc). This can be potential harmful component for respiratory health not only to medical practitioners but also to the patients who undergo endoscopic examinations. However, there has been scare data for the air quality check in the endoscopic unit. The aim of this study is to check the air quality using conventional portable passive air quality monitoring sensors in gastrointestinal endoscopy unit.

Enrollment: 4,320 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• This study will check the only air quality in endoscopic unit of Hallym University Chuncheon Sacred Heart hospital of Korea, not a patients.

Exclusion criteria

• This study will check the only air quality in endoscopic unit of Hallym University Chuncheon Sacred Heart hospital of Korea, not a patients.

Trial design

4,320 participants in 3 patient groups

Endoscopic procedural area

Description:

air quality check of endoscopic procedural room

Treatment:

Procedure: Method of endoscopic procedure

Recovery area for patients

Description:

air quality check of recovery area for patients in endoscopic unit

Cleansing area for equipments

Description:

air quality check of cleansing area for equipments in endoscopic unit