title: [Air monitoring and method of air sterilization of long-term senile patient wards].
abstract: The air culture was monitored in the wards for aged long-term inpatients and the air sterilizing method was evaluated. The study showed that the natural ventilation was the most practical procedure to reduce the number of bacteria in the air of the wards. The use of Chinese herbal medicine prenaration to eradicate the bacteria in the air by comparison with the ultraviolet light method was proaed to have no sigaificant difference (P > 0.05). The Chinese herbal medicine method was superior to the ultraviolet light in its safly, reliability, easy operation, moisturizing air, and eradicating the side effect of the ultraviolet light. So it is especially suitable to the wards for aged inpatient.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D010362:Patients' Rooms / Q000592:standards*; D013242:Sterilization / Q000379:methods; D014691:Ventilation / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal