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Text Box: The primary function of an Airborne Infection Isolation Room (AII Room) is to protect health-care workers (HCWs) and the public by decreasing the likelihood that infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and avian influenza (bird flu) will be transmitted within health-care settings.

Some of these suggestions include:

· AII room exhaust air should not be reintroduced back into the facility.

· AII room air should not be exhausted near fresh air intakes.

· Use High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filters with a minimum efficiency of 99.97% on 0.3-micron particles to filter the AII room air before it is exhausted to the outside.

· HEPA filters should be installed in housings that are manufactured specifically to eliminate leakage between filter segments and between the filter and housing.

· A quantitative filter performance test should be performed at the initial filter installation and each time after the filter is changed.

· Maintenance personnel should be protected from possible transfer of M. tuberculosis from HEPA media (e.g. bag-in / bag-out filter replacement).

· Pre-filters should be used to extend the life of the HEPA filter.

Flanders/CSC has met or exceeded all of these requirements with our Self-Contained System. This product is ideally suited for removal of infectious airborne particles including multi-drug resistant (MDR) organisms and other viral and bacterial pathogens (e.g. TB, SARS).