What We Do
- Pre/Vent addresses the issue of airborne transmission of illnesses within indoor spaces, specifically dental and medical settings.
- Minute pathogenic particles can remain suspended in the air for hours and travel significant distances, potentially infecting others.
- Despite efforts made during the COVID-19 pandemic, epidemiologists continue to emphasize that mitigating airborne transmission of illness persists as a “major unmet clinical need.”
- Our pre/Vent system actively remediates the threat of airborne infection (whatever they may be) at the source before they can widely disperse in the local environment.
- We provide a crucial extra layer of protection and enhancement to traditional PPE and local engineering controls, safeguarding not only the clinician, but also protecting the patient as well as office staff from the source of potential infection.
- Think of it as the plug and play version of an expensive hospital negative pressure room.
Colloidal suspensions of small solid or liquid particles in a gas (e.g., air). Aerosols remain airborne can remain suspended in the air for long time periods and travel long distances away from the emitter due to their low settling velocity.
Aerosols of biological origin, or particles of biological origin suspended in air.
A pathway of infection that occurs through exposure to small virus-containing respiratory droplets or droplet nuclei emitted by an infectious person. Although these infections can be transmitted at close range, they are also efficiently and frequently transmitted over longer distances (i.e., more than six feet) or over longer times (i.e., to people passing through an air space in which the infectious person was present minutes to hours earlier).
System Components
A Breath of Fresh AER
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, is highly infectious and can spread from person to person, including through aerosol transmission of particles produced when an infected person exhales, talks, vocalizes, sneezes, or coughs. COVID-19 is less commonly transmitted when people touch a contaminated object and then touch their eyes, nose, or mouth. The virus that causes COVID-19 is highly transmissible and can be spread by people who have no symptoms. Particles containing the virus can travel more than 6 feet, especially indoors and in dry conditions (relative humidity below 40%), and can be spread by individuals who have no symptoms and who do not know they are infected. The CDC estimates that over fifty percent of the spread of the virus is from individuals with no symptoms at the time of spread.
Improving ventilation is a key engineering control that can be used as part of a layered strategy to reduce the concentration of viral particles in indoor air and the risk of virus transmission to unvaccinated and otherwise at-risk workers in particular. A well-maintained ventilation system is particularly important in any indoor workplace setting and when working properly, ventilation is an important control measure to limit the spread of COVID-19.
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