일부 종합 병원 로비의 공기 중 엔도톡신 농도에 미치는 환경 요인 평가An Assessment of Environmental Characteristics Associated with the Level of Endotoxin Concentration in Hospital Lobbies
- Other Titles
- An Assessment of Environmental Characteristics Associated with the Level of Endotoxin Concentration in Hospital Lobbies
- Authors
- 이경민; 염정관; 이원재; 류승훈; 박동진; 박동욱
- Issue Date
- 2014
- Publisher
- 한국산업보건학회
- Keywords
- endotoxin; bioaerosols; indoor air; hospital
- Citation
- 한국산업보건학회지, v.24, no.3, pp.310 - 320
- Journal Title
- 한국산업보건학회지
- Volume
- 24
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 310
- End Page
- 320
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/13407
- DOI
- 10.15269/JKSOEH.2014.24.3.310
- ISSN
- 2384-132x
- Abstract
- Backgrounds: Endotoxin, which found in the outer membrane of the gram-negative bacteria cell wall, makes up almost all of the lipopolysaccharide(LPS). When people are exposed to endotoxin,it can result in diverse health effects such as an airway irritation and inflammation, fever, malaise, bronchitis, allergic asthma, toxic pneumonitis, hypersensitivity lung disease. Cases among the elderly, children or pregnant can occur more frequently than a healthy adult if they are repeatedly exposed to the existing endotoxin. Therefore, we investigated and assessed the environmental characteristics associated with the airborne endotoxin concentration level in six hospital lobbies.
Method: Endotoxin from indoor air in six hospital lobbies was measured by an area sampling method and analyzed according to American Society for Testing and Materials International(ASTM international) E2144-01. Total suspended particulate(TSP), carbon dioxide(CO2), temperature and humidity were also measured by using direct reading measurements or airborne sampling equipment at the same time. Environmental characteristics were appropriately divided into two or three groups for a statistics analysis. One-way analysis variable(one-way ANOVA) was used to examine a difference of the endotoxin concentration, depending on the environmental characteristics. In addition, only variables with p-value(p<0.25) were eventually designed to the best model by using multiple regression analysis.
Results: The correlation analysis result indicated that TSP(p=0.003) and CO2(p<0.0001) levels were significantly associated with endotoxin concentration levels. In contrast, temperature(p<0.068) and humidity(p<0.365) were not associated with endotoxin concentration. Levels of endotoxin concentration were statistically different among the environmental characteristics of Service time(p=0.01), Establishment of hospital(p<0.001), Scale of hospital(p=0.01), Day average people using hospital(p=0.03), Cleaning time of lobby(p=0.05), Season(p<0.001), and Cleaning of ventilation system(p<0.001) according to ANOVA. Finally, the bestmodel(Adjusted R-square=72%) that we designed through a multiple regression test included environmental characteristics related to Service time, Area of lobby, Season, Cleaning of ventilation system, and Temperature.
Conclusions: According to this study, our result showed a normal level of endotoxin concentration in the hospital lobbies and found environmental management methods to reduce the level of endotoxin concentration to a minimum. Consequently, this study recognized to be requirement for the management of ventilation systems and an indoor temperature in order to reduce the level of endotoxin concentration in the hospital lobbies.
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