Comparing the effectiveness of negative-pressure barrier devices in providing air clearance to prevent aerosol transmission

• Tzu-Yao Hung ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ Contributed equally to this work and are considered co-first authors

  Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, Zhong-Xing branch, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, Tainan City, Taiwan, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei, Taiwan, CrazyatLAB (Critical Airway Training Laboratory), Taipei City, Taiwan

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• Wei-Lun Chen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ Contributed equally to this work and are considered co-first authors

  Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Zhong-Xing branch, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan

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• Yung-Cheng Su,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien County, Taiwan, Department of Emergency, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi County, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8201-1592

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• Chih-Chieh Wu,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Zhong-Xing branch, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan

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• Tzu-Yao Chueh,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Energy and Refrigerating Air-conditioning Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Hsin-Ling Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hsin-Ling Chen, Shih-Cheng Hu, Tee Lin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: taipeicityerprogram@gmail.com (HLC); f10870@ntut.edu.tw (SCH); whitelin1112@gmail.com (TL)

  Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Zhong-Xing branch, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4337-8412

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• Shih-Cheng Hu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hsin-Ling Chen, Shih-Cheng Hu, Tee Lin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: taipeicityerprogram@gmail.com (HLC); f10870@ntut.edu.tw (SCH); whitelin1112@gmail.com (TL)

  Affiliation Department of Energy and Refrigerating Air-conditioning Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Tee Lin

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hsin-Ling Chen, Shih-Cheng Hu, Tee Lin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Software, Supervision

  * E-mail: taipeicityerprogram@gmail.com (HLC); f10870@ntut.edu.tw (SCH); whitelin1112@gmail.com (TL)

  Affiliation Department of Energy and Refrigerating Air-conditioning Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

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