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Healthcare Ventilation Compliance: Testing to Monitoring
Healthcare ventilation compliance means meeting NFPA 99 and ASHRAE 170 requirements for air pressure, air changes, temperature, and humidity in critical spaces, verifying those conditions through scheduled testing, and increasingly, confirming them around the clock with continuous monitoring instead of only on test day.
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