When a patient with a suspected airborne infection is admitted, the room's pressure differential is the only barrier between their aerosol and the corridor. YANING builds negative pressure isolation rooms and negative pressure operating theatres as complete packages: airtight envelope, dedicated exhaust with H14 filtration, anteroom, interlocked doors and the alarm logic that makes a pressure failure visible within seconds.
Air always flows from clean to dirty. Every door in the chain is interlocked so two cannot open at once, and the differential between adjacent zones is monitored rather than assumed.
| Item | Specification |
|---|---|
| Envelope airtightness | Under 0.3 air changes per hour at 50 Pa leakage |
| Exhaust filtration | H14 HEPA, 99.99% at 0.3 micron, bag-in bag-out option |
| Air change rate | 12 ACH minimum, 15 ACH for high risk procedures |
| Pressure monitoring | Room and anteroom gauges, 0-50 Pa, 1 Pa resolution |
| Alarm logic | Visual and audible at door, repeated at nurse station, pushed to BMS |
| Door type | Hermetic sliding or swing, interlocked, vision panel |
| Sealing | Continuous gasket, sealed penetrations, no ceiling tile gaps |
First, unsealed penetrations: a cable tray hole the size of a fist destroys a 30 Pa differential, so every service entry is gasketed and inspected with a smoke pencil at handover. Second, exhaust recirculation: if the exhaust discharge sits near an intake or an openable window, filtered air returns to the building, so discharge location is part of our design drawings. Third, alarm blindness: a gauge in an empty corridor protects nobody, so the signal is repeated at the point where staff actually stand.
The same engineering is applied to negative pressure operating theatres for infectious cases, to PCR and microbiology laboratories, and to pharmaceutical containment suites where potent compounds must not escape. Panels, doors, filters and controls come from one production line, which is why the pressure chain holds together at the joints where separate suppliers usually meet.
Send us the room plan and the required pressure cascade and we will return an isolation suite design with airflow balance calculations and an alarm schedule.