The thermal environment required by patients and nursing staff in general wards
Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Tegnologie/South African Journal of Science and Technology
| Field | Value | |
| Title | The thermal environment required by patients and nursing staff in general wards Die termiese omgewingsbehoeftes van pasiënte en verpleegpersoneel in algemene siekesale | |
| Creator | Wentzel, J. D. | |
| Description | Often it is accepted and believed that all areas in hospitals should be air-conditioned. In view of the current high cost of installing and operating air-conditioning units, an objective study of the real needs in this regard was proposed. Whereas the need for air-conditioning in operating theatres, intensive care units and other rather specialised areas is accepted in principle, it is an open question whether all rooms need such treatment. The question could be answered only after a thorough investigation into the actual thermal environmental requirements of patients and nursing staff in general wards. Some 1 300 patients and 60 nurses were interviewed in six local hospitals and their subjective reactions to the various thermal environments to which they were exposed were analysed in terms of three different comfort indices. Air temperature was found to be a good comfort index when the humidity is relatively low. Daar word dikwels aanvaar en geglo dat alle vertrekke in hospitale lugversorging behoort te hê. In die lig van die huidige hoë installerings- en bedryfskoste wat hiermee gepaard gaan, is daar voorgestel dat ’n objektiewe studie van die werklike behoeftes gemaak moet word. Die noodsaaklikheid van lugversorging in operasiesale, waakeenhede en ander spesiale vertrekke word in beginsel aanvaar, maar dit bly ’n ope vraag of dit vir alle kamers geregverdig is. Die antwoord hierop kan slegs verskaf word deur behoorlik in te gaan op die werklike termiese omgewingsbehoeftes van pasiënte en verpleegpersoneel in algemene siekesale. Onderhoude is met 1 300 pasiënte en 60 verpleegsters in ses plaaslike hospitale gevoer. Hul subjektiewe reaksie op die verskillende termiese klimaatstoestande waaraan hulle blootgestel is, word in terme van drie verskillende behaaglikheidsindekse ontleed. Lugtemperatuur is ’n goeie behaaglikheidsindeks wanneer die lugvogtigheid betreklik laag is. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 1982-03-25 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/satnt.v1i3.1156 | |
| Source | Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Tegnologie; Vol 1, No 3 (1982); 145-155 Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Tegnologie; Vol 1, No 3 (1982); 145-155 2222-4173 0254-3486 | |
| Language | eng | |
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