Credit photo: Xenex website
Robots are soldiers in a war againt HAI’s
Two Canadian hospitals have recently acquired a machine enabling surface disinfection in health institutions.
The Juravinksi hospital in Hamilton has started a year trial of a robot that costs 95 000 $ that burns the bacteria with UV rays: the Xenex Robot System. The general hospital of Vancouver has also started a trial of a UV robot that is 1.65 meters tall, called the Tru-D Smart UVC, working with UV rays as well. The effectiveness of these machines relies on the properties of the UV rays, or rather on the xenon UV rays, to sterilize and kill microscopic contaminants.
Ebola outbreak
Recently, with the Ebola Outbreak, the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, where 42-year-old Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the US, was being treated, also uses such device. But was it enough? See this other blog post from my collegue: The Dallas case rises a question: Should protocols for infection control be revised?
What about your hospital?
The goal of these robots is not to replace the cleaning staff, nor the products employed for critical disinfections, but rather to complete their work, and to avoid that a single microscopic bacteria could take the life of a person whose immune system is weak.
Is your plan ready? Is your staff trained well enough? Do you have a stabilized chlorinated cleaner disinfectant in stock?
Do not miss our next post, which is going to explain how UV disinfection works!
More about Ebola Virus
There are a lot of ramblings about Ebola in 2014 on the web, you will find these articles interesting:
Ebola, How to disinfect surfaces
Cleaning in Hospitals (part 2)
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source: http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/infos/lemonde/archives/2014/10/20141007-174935.html