A patient developed a serious infection following open heart surgery. Investigation revealed that a heating and cooling unit in the operating room had been contaminated with bacteria during manufacturing. An animation was developed to demonstrate how the unit's normal operation would aerosolize the contaminated particles and direct them toward the sterile surgical field.

The visualization traced the airflow patterns from the compromised HVAC system, showing how routine ventilation cycles would disperse bacterial contaminants directly into the patient's open surgical site during the procedure.

The animation provided clear visual evidence of the causal link between the manufacturing defect and the patient's post-surgical infection.