A Home Air Purifier in Doctors Offices

A doctor's office is a prime example of a location where specialized equipment might be needed and there are in fact, a number of air purifiers available to meet those needs. The principal and technology behind the home air purifier is much the same across the genre. Air is drawn into the equipment by a fan, passed through a carbon filter and then returned to the atmosphere. The differences start to occur when equipment is designed for specific areas, for specific applications and, of course, for different sizes of areas to be treated.

There are three aspects of the doctor's office which need to be addressed when thinking about a home air purifier. In the first place, it is probably assumed that many of the people, who visit, the patients, will be carrying germs or bacteria which need to be removed from the air in the premises. Secondly, it may well be assumed that many of the visitors, being unwell, will have immune systems less than fully able to defend them against attack from germs and bacteria. Thirdly, the staff will be continuously exposed to risk - particularly the doctor himself who works in close proximity to his patients. It is essential that he is protected from those patients and them from any third party or dormant germ or bacterium that he may be carrying.

Research and analysis shows that the indoor air of most doctors' offices is full of microorganisms such as dust, bacteria, viruses, and fungal spores. Since much of the pollution in the air is principally organic, that dust makes perfect breeding ground for the germs, bacteria and mites that can cause and aggravate ailments and allergies of patients that are already sick. The levels of hygiene on medical premises are obviously very high, but it is still vital that the air purifiers that are specified for doctor's offices must be able to deal with indoor pollution in high quantities. It is a must to keep airborne microorganisms to a minimum to be able to protect the staff, patients, and the visitors of the doctor's office.

The typical home air purifier that is designed for doctor's offices contain a HEPA filter that has an efficiency of 99.97% of trapping the harmful airborne particles. Not only does the air purifier filter out the bad particles in the air, but it also helps to circulate the air so that it isn't stale and stuffy in the facility. It's also necessary that these machines be low maintenance, inexpensive to run, easy to move around and, most importantly, quiet in operation. Time is precious to them and they need units that aren't hard to maintenance and change out the filters when needed. Most of these units are very mobile and flexible as well. The durability and usability issues are addressed with high quality, electronically controlled fans in light but robust cabinets. Quite often too, there are remote control options, a choice of cabinet configurations and colors.

Removing matter such dust and bacteria from the atmosphere is only a part of the function of an air purifier. It must also be able to deal with harmful chemicals such as disinfectants used to keep the bacteria down in the waiting room of the doctor's office. In the past, the filtration process has been known to produce ozone which is a variation of oxygen that is very harmful to the human respiratory system, this is of course counterproductive. Now however, there are plenty of air purifier systems on the market that either emits low or no ozone from their units.

Modern Air Purifiers have been designed to meet the specific needs of most locations and environments including medical premises like hospitals and doctor's offices. Design developments include multiple stage filtration, higher filter capacities and improved input and output flows, often facilitated by more powerful fans or impellers.

An Air Purifier specified for a doctor's office must be able to remove a complex range of materials and chemicals from the atmosphere. Included on the list would be the obvious matter like the dust, the pollen grains which cause hay-fever an allergy to grass pollen that affects around twenty-five million Americans, and any residual particles carried on clothing like pet hairs and general pollutants. In addition, the air purifier must be capable of neutralizing any chemical pollutants, like tobacco smoke and vehicle exhaust fumes. Its principal objective must be to return, to the room, clean, sweet smelling air; preferably that doesn't have a "medical" odor. It is fairly easy this day and age to find the perfect air purifiers for all of the needs of a doctor's office.

We recommend the air purifier technology from Allerair that uses UV light to kill bacteria in most medical applications.

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