Category Archives: Environmental Safety Products in Healthcare

Trinity Guardion Bed Protection System Proven To Reduce C. diff., A Healthcare-Associated Infection, By 50%

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Trinity Guardion was selected by Xavier University’s Center for Innovation to present their Bed Protection System, which is proven to reduce a Hospital Acquired C.diff infection by 50%, at Healthovate! Summit on Thursday, June 11. The 2015

Xavier Center for Innovation (CFI) Healthovate! Summit is co-sponsored by Intel-GE Care Innovations™. “Trinity Guardion is the world’s only manufacturer of launderable bed covers specifically engineered to eliminate bacteria, spores and viruses from a hospital bed mattress. I’m excited to present this patented technology with over 6 years of research behind it to this esteemed group of innovators,” states Bruce Rippe, Trinity Guardion’s Chief Operating Officer.

Healthovate! Summits give healthcare leaders an opportunity to share their expertise and engage in conversations with other leaders from other industries. Trinity Guardion will also be presenting at similar events in Boston (July 31), Chicago (Oct 5), and Nashville (Oct 28). “Our mission at the CFI is to use innovation to solve complex problems. I can’t think of a more important challenge facing our society than how we keep people healthy, while reducing costs and improving overall well-being,” said Shawn Nason, Chief Innovation Officer at Xavier University. “By bringing together a diverse community of people, all committed to health, I am confident we can find meaningful solutions and innovative technologies and systems that will transform the healthcare industry—not to mention better ways to educate and prepare students to work in and lead healthcare in the future.”

Over 40 area start-up hospitals, universities, national organizations, healthcare professionals, and Xavier alumni will learn how this innovative mattress cover acts as a barrier to prevent bacteria and fluids, which can be harbored in a hospital mattress as a result of ineffective cleaning, from coming in contact with a patient. Due to its abilities in preventing viruses such as Ebola and other bacteria from penetrating through the cover, hospitals have begun to implement the covers in their infection control wards. Last year, the innovative technology of the Trinity Bed Protection System was recognized when the honorable mention for the 2014 NALTH Goldberg Innovation Award was awarded to St. Vincent Seton Specialty Hospital, Indianapolis for their use of the mattress cover in their facility.

Tested in two Midwestern hospitals, the Trinity Bed Protection System does not impede bed operation or any clinical aspects of the underlying mattress. In fact, it helps reduce terminal clean time, while improving asset life of the bed.

The Trinity Bed Protection System from Trinity Guardion makes bed surfaces cleaner for every person every time.

About Trinity Guardion: Trinity Guardion is the result of an international collaboration of scientists, doctors and academic professionals in the healthcare industry, united in the concern that hospital beds are not clean. This concern was corroborated by peer reviewed research that is available upon request. The product line includes mattress covers for most brands of hospital beds, therapy tables and pillow cases.

Healthcare Disinfecting Cell PhoneSoap System

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Click on the link below to be directed to the PhoneSoap website and learn more about this Cell Phone Disinfecting System Available:

https://www.phonesoap.com/product/healthcare-sanitizing-and-disinfecting/

 

 

PhoneSoap’s UV products are used in hospitals throughout the country

 

UV-C light is already being used in hospitals and clean rooms throughout the world because it has been proven to effectively penetrate and disarm bacteria. The light will sanitize any surface it touches. PhoneSoap has adapted this technology to be portable and accessible to the average health care provider.

 

Xenex Improving Patient Safety In The Operating Room

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Interest in understanding the role of the operating room (OR) environment in transmission of surgical site infections (SSIs) has increased greatly in recent years. Numerous studies have shown that standard cleaning practices leave significant levels of contamination on OR surfaces and can contribute to SSIs, the most expensive hospital acquired infection (HAI) to treat. Xenex Disinfection Services’ patented pulsed xenon Full Spectrum™ ultraviolet (UV) disinfection technology has been proven to quickly destroy the viruses, bacteria, mold, fungus and bacterial spores in ORs that cause SSIs.

Traditional cleaning practices leave behind dangerous pathogens such as Clostridium difficile (C.diff), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). A study conducted at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School Teaching Affiliate, demonstrated that pulsed xenon UV light disinfection can significantly decrease OR contamination. The study showed that Xenex’s germ-zapping robot reduced surface contamination in the OR by 81 percent, and that while between-case contamination in the OR continued to rise from case to case with standard cleaning, it was reduced to almost zero when the Xenex robot was used between cases.

Xenex will demonstrate its germ-zapping robot at the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Surgical Conference & Expo in Denver, CO, March 7-10, 2015. Hospitals using Xenex for OR disinfection will discuss how they are eliminating the microorganisms that cause infections and make patients and healthcare workers sick.

Xenex has teamed up with AORN to host an educational session as part of the AORN Leadership Development series. On Tuesday, March 10, Julie Tonsager, OR Team Lead at St. Cloud Surgical Center, will share the facility’s two-year journey in evaluating UV technology. She will discuss the steps they took to ensure a successful implementation in their ORs.

“The risk of post-op infection poses a great risk to patients and healthcare facilities alike. We have proven repeatedly that hospitals using our room disinfection technology are reducing patient risk because they are destroying the microorganisms that cause infections. Most importantly, hospitals using our robots are reporting infection rate reductions of more than 50 percent as outcome studies in peer reviewed medical journals,” said Dr. Mark Stibich, Chief Scientific Officer of Xenex. “Unlike other UV disinfection systems, the Xenex robot utilizes pulsed xenon and kills C.diff spores in less than five minutes. The robot’s five-minute disinfection cycle enables it to disinfect areas and rooms quickly so it can be used throughout the entire facility, including multi-bed wards, to enhance patient and healthcare worker safety.”

Uniquely designed for ease of use and portability, a hospital’s environmental services staff can operate the Xenex robot without disrupting hospital operations and without using expensive chemicals. With a five-minute disinfection cycle, the robot has helped disinfect 30-62 hospital rooms per day (according to Xenex customer reports), including patient rooms, operating rooms, equipment rooms, emergency rooms, intensive care units and public areas. More than 250 hospitals, Veterans Affairs and DoD facilities in the U.S. are using Xenex robots, which are also in use in skilled nursing facilities, ambulatory surgery centers and long term acute care facilities.

There are now ten peer reviewed studies confirming the efficacy of the Xenex Germ-Zapping Robot™ in the healthcare environment, including three studies showing a decrease in C.diff, MRSA and MDRO infections when the hospital used the Xenex robot for room disinfection.

About Xenex Disinfection Services

Xenex’s patented pulsed xenon Full Spectrum UV room disinfection system is a pesticidal device used for the advanced cleaning of healthcare facilities. Due to its speed and ease of use, the Xenex system has proven to integrate smoothly into hospital cleaning operations. The Xenex mission is to eliminate harmful bacteria, viruses and spores that can cause hospital acquired infections in the patient environment, and to become the new standard method for disinfection in healthcare facilities worldwide. For more information, visit www.xenex.com.

 

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Evaluation of a Pulsed Xenon Ultraviolet (PX-UV) Disinfection System for Reduction of Healthcare-Associated Pathogens in Hospital Rooms

“Evaluation of a Pulsed Xenon Ultraviolet (PX-UV) Disinfection System for Reduction of Healthcare-Associated Pathogens in Hospital Rooms”

A study conducted by Dr. Curtis Donskey, and a team of researchers with the objective to determine the effectiveness of pulsed xenon ultraviolet (PX-UV) disinfection device for reduction in recovery of healthcare-associated pathogens was recently published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE).

Michelle M. Nerandzica1 c1, Priyaleela Thotaa2, Thriveen Sankar C.a2, Annette Jencsona1, Jennifer L. Cadnuma2, Amy J. Raya2a3, Robert A. Salataa2a3, Richard R. Watkinsa4 and Curtis J. Donskeya2a3a5

a1 Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio

a2 Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio

a3 Department of Medicine, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio

a4 Akron General Medical Center, Akron, Ohio

a5 Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio

Abstract

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of a pulsed xenon ultraviolet (PX-UV) disinfection device for reduction in recovery of healthcare-associated pathogens.

SETTING Two acute-care hospitals.

METHODS We examined the effectiveness of PX-UV for killing of Clostridium difficile spores, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) on glass carriers and evaluated the impact of pathogen concentration, distance from the device, organic load, and shading from the direct field of radiation on killing efficacy. We compared the effectiveness of PX-UV and ultraviolet-C (UV-C) irradiation, each delivered for 10 minutes at 4 feet. In hospital rooms, the frequency of native pathogen contamination on high-touch surfaces was assessed before and after 10 minutes of PX-UV irradiation.

RESULTS On carriers, irradiation delivered for 10 minutes at 4 feet from the PX-UV device reduced recovery of C. difficile spores, MRSA, and VRE by 0.55±0.34, 1.85±0.49, and 0.6±0.25 log10 colony-forming units (CFU)/cm2, respectively. Increasing distance from the PX-UV device dramatically reduced killing efficacy, whereas pathogen concentration, organic load, and shading did not. Continuous UV-C achieved significantly greater log10CFU reductions than PX-UV irradiation on glass carriers. On frequently touched surfaces, PX-UV significantly reduced the frequency of positive C. difficile, VRE, and MRSA culture results.

CONCLUSIONS The PX-UV device reduced recovery of MRSA, C. difficile, and VRE on glass carriers and on frequently touched surfaces in hospital rooms with a 10-minute UV exposure time. PX-UV was not more effective than continuous UV-C in reducing pathogen recovery on glass slides, suggesting that both forms of UV have some effectiveness at relatively short exposure times.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2014;00(0): 1–6

(Received July 11 2014)

(Accepted October 14 2014)

To access the report in its entirety please click on the following link:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2014.36

Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Patented UVC Lighting System Arcalux by Health Risk Management System (HRMS)

The Arcalux® HRMS is a ceiling mounted air disinfection system that doubles as a lighting fixture. The fluorescent HRMS01 uses about 110 watts of energy while the LED HRMS02 uses around 125 watts of energy. The installation process is easy, while maintenance of the lamp and filter are yearly and the ballast requires no tools.

Offering 24/7/365 protection against HAI - causing pathogens, this patented UVC lighting system works unobtrusively changing the air an average of four times an hour without ever disturbing a patient’s rest, quietly defending your staff and patients.

The CDC estimates that 2 million Healthcare-associated Infections (HAIs) cause or contribute to 99,000 deaths each year. With HAIs costing the US economy an estimated $45 billion annually, the HRMS is often more cost efficient than most stand-alone surface disinfection systems.

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AGT’s Health Risk Management System (HRMS) installed in Norwood Urgent Care Clinic in Massachusetts

State-of-the art urgent care facility built isolation room to provide enhanced patient treatment

South Bend, Indiana, December 2, 2014 – Norwood Urgent Care Clinic in Norwood, Massachusetts has taken the Health Risk Management System (HRMS) manufactured by American Green Technology ® (AGT) and built a cutting edge isolation room for potential high risk patients. Unlike most traditional walk-in treatment centers, the Norwood facility has invested heavily in technology like on-site lab testing, cardiac monitoring, CT scan, X-Ray and ultrasound services in order to offer alternative healthcare options to consumers.

“Our goal at Norwood is to set a standard of excellence for urgent care clinics across the U.S.,” said Justin Mavromatis, Operations Director. “We feel the HRMS is an innovative product to add to our repertoire of healthcare technology. Given the news reports of growing concerns over antibiotic resistant superbugs and the fact we are in the middle of flu season; providing unparalleled patient care is priority one. We think using an HRMS in our isolation room can help accomplish that goal in urgent care clinics. Norwood Urgent Care will be the facility that is prepared for any medical condition that may arise.”

“Clinics like Norwood are the perfect application for the HRMS,” said Danny Bogar, CEO of AGT. “The HRMS is an environmental disinfection system that effectively purifies the air and reduces the concentration of dangerous surface pathogens like MRSA, influenza and C. difficile which combined kill over 70,000 people each year.”

Located just 25 miles from Boston, Norwood Urgent Care anticipates opening five additional centers surrounding the Greater Boston area in the near future. To learn more log on to norwoodurgentcare.com.

The HRMS is distributed by Boston-based Improved Illumination who provides energy efficient lighting solutions to forward-thinking healthcare organizations including acute care hospitals, urgent care centers and skilled nursing facilities.

About American Green Technology:American Green Technology® (AGT) is a company dedicated to developing innovative products to positively impact the health, economy and environment of global communities. AGT’s Health Risk Management System (HRMS) is a patented UVC lighting product clinically proven to eliminate 99.7% of airborne pathogens that cause Healthcare-associated Infections (HAIs) in hospitals or wherever it is installed

For more information please visit their website:

www.arcaluxhrms.com

 

 
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