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in shadowed areas, these levels still exceed Center for Disease Control (CDC) recom- mendations for disinfection levels on room surfaces.”
Last summer, Sarasota Memorial Hospital (SMH), an 800-plus bed facility in Florida, pi- loted three UV-C robots. Greg Rosenberger, Director of Environmental Services, sits on SMH’s Infection Prevention Committee and says they went with the Tru-D model. Next, they collaborated with nursing and trained
and certifi ed a dozen EVS staff on how to use the robot. Today they have three machines, with a fourth on the way, thanks to gener- ous support from its Healthcare Foundation Board. The robots are used to disinfect a va- riety of rooms and, at the request of Infection Prevention, are aggressively focused on reducing C. diff rates and collecting data. Rosenberger provided a snapshot of how it works: “Once your safety measures are in place, and you step outside with your
iPad, you remotely start the Tru-D process. The laser sensors begin to measure the re- fl ectivity in that room so it’s calculating the amount of time that those bulbs are going to have stay on — not just in direct line of site but indirect line of site, even shadowed surfaces. We actually see a grid on the iPad that displays the best position for this room; by briefl y aborting the robot process, you can adjust a foot this way or that way or angle the robot slightly to minimize the cycle time. You come out, restart and recalculate and it’s as simple as that.
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a knack for getting it positioned just right and managing your cycle time,” continued Rosenberger. He says that average cycle time for a pateint room is about 35 minutes and as little as 15 minutes in other areas. “The OR takes the longest — approximately 60 minutes — just because of the logistics or size, layout, equipment and refl ectivity.” Erik Melgaard, Sales Engineer, Clordisys Solutions Inc., shared his thoughts about UV-C refl ective capability. “One of the other common misconceptions about UV-C disin- fection is regarding the refl ective properties of UV light. UV-C light is absorbed by the majority of surfaces and materials that are common in healthcare environments,” he said. “These surfaces that ab- sorb the majority of UV-C light include polished metal surfaces as well as glass surfaces such as mirrors.” Melgaard also noted how UV-C can target areas that sprayed bleach solutions might have missed. “The contact times for bleach solutions range from 30 seconds to 10 minutes before they can be wiped down. It can be diffi cult to be sure that a sur- face is completely covered in the bleach solution and even more challenging to ensure that those surfaces remain wet with the disinfecting solution for the entire recom-
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mended contact time. Using UV light instead of bleach eliminates the challenge of keeping surfaces wet for the recommended time.” Mark Stibich, Ph.D., Chief Scientifi c Offi cer, Xenex Disinfection Services, takes a similar stance and points to research that shows 68 percent of hospital surfaces aren’t suffi ciently disinfected during manual cleaning2
and that
Xenex’s germ-zapping robot, which utilizes non-toxic, pulsed xenon gas to create broad spectrum UV light, can quickly destroy those remaining microorganisms. “When a facility is thinking about UV disinfection, they need to carefully evaluate the science behind the technology and consider evidence-based
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