Laminar flow hoods are available in horizontal or vertical airflow configurations.
Vertical laminar flow hood chemotherapy.
A horizontal flow hood will move air from the back of the unit through hepa or ulpa filters and to the front of the work surface.
This prevents hazardous chemicals such as chemotherapy chemicals from being directed at the person working at the hood.
These hoods use a vertical or horizontal airflow design.
These biosafety cabinets also referred to as chemo hoods are designed for the safe handling of cytotoxic agents and other hazardous drugs in pharmacy and oncology settings as well as in other compounding operations.
A vertical flow hood will move air from the top of the unit through filters and down to the work surface.
Considerations for purchasing a laminar flow hood.
The flow can be horizontal blowing parallel to the work surface or it can be vertical blowing from the top of the cabinet onto the work surface.
This is an in house training video intended to provide visual aid along side our process and procedure.
The units have an extra deep work area 28 with vertical laminar flow.
Germfree s bvbi series of laminar flow hoods provide an efficient platform for preparing non hazardous compounded sterile preparations csps.
A vertical laminar flow hood works in mostly the same way but the air is blown from the top of the hood straight down.
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Laminar flow hoods also called laminar flow clean benches force air through a hepa or ulpa filter to create a clean work area free of nearly all contaminating particulates including bacteria mold spores and many viruses.