Continuous room decontamination technologies

Room decontamination with UV radiation.

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of a UV-C-emitting device to eliminate clinically important nosocomial pathogens in a contaminated hospital room. METHODS This study was carried out in a standard but empty hospital room (phase 1) and in a room previously occupied by a patient with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) infection (...

Beef Safety Beef Decontamination Technologies

Introduction Beef carcasses, which are initially sterile, become contaminated with bacterial pathogens via transmission of organisms from the exterior of the live animal, and/or from the environment, to the product surface. Extensive contamination, or abusive conditions that allow bacteria to reproduce, increase risk for presence of pathogenic bacteria and formation of toxins in food (Sofos et ...

Hydrogen peroxide automated room decontamination: vapour vs. aerosol systems

Compatibility of hydrogen peroxide vapor room decontamination with physiological monitors.

Infection Control / Volume 35 / Issue 01 / January 2014, pp 92 93 DOI: 10.1086/674388, Published online: 02 January 2015 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0195941700034834 How to cite this article: John M. Boyce, Nancy L. Havill, Vincent Cianci and Gary Flanagan (2014). Compatibility of Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor Room Decontamination with Physiological Monitors. Infecti...

Fighting Ebola with novel spore decontamination technologies for the military

Recently, global public health organizations such as Doctors without Borders (MSF), the World Health Organization (WHO), Public Health Canada, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the U.S. government developed and deployed Field Decontamination Kits (FDKs), a novel, lightweight, compact, reusable decontamination technology to sterilize Ebola-contaminated medical devices at remote clinical s...