Chlorhexidine Gluconate (CHG)

Component Hardware Group Introduces Antimicrobial-Treated Spouts

LAKEWOOD, N.J. – Component Hardware Group (CHG) announces SANIGUARD antimicrobial-treated spouts for use with potable water on its Encore® premium plumbing fixtures. The inside diameter of the spout is coated with an inorganic silver ion antimicrobial to reduce ...More
April 10, 2008
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April's News

3M Health Care 3M Health Care recently launched its newest infection prevention product, 3M™ Tegaderm™ CHG (chlorhexidine gluconate) IV Securement Dressing. This transparent antimicrobial dressing is used to cover and protect catheter sites and to secure devices to skin. ...More
April 1, 2008
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MRSA Screening at Hospital Does Not Appear to Reduce Infection Rate

New findings do not support the recommendation for universal screening on hospital admission for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to reduce the rate of hospital-acquired infections in surgical patients, according to a study in the March 12 issue of JAMA. ...More
March 11, 2008
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Survey Says 26 Percent of Moms are Concerned About Their Child's Exposure to Germs During Sports

NORCROSS, Ga. -- A recent survey of mothers of school-age athletes in the U.S. showed that only 26 percent were concerned about their child being exposed to germs during sports. Yet community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA), a type of staph ...More
March 11, 2008
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CABG Wound Care Best Practices are Elusive

Following the best wound care practices related to coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery may not always be easy, since there are few specific official recommendations, says Deverick Anderson, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine in the division of infectious ...More
March 1, 2008
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Reducing Surgical Site Infections

By definition, a surgical site infection (SSI) is an infection that develops within 30 days after an operation or within one year if an implant was placed and the infection appears to be related to the surgery.1 Post-operative SSIs are the most common healthcare-associated ...More
March 1, 2008
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Proper Preparation is Everything

According to results of a consumer survey conducted by the American College of Surgeons (ACS), the average patient will spend more preparation time before purchasing a big-ticket item for their house than they will spend preparing for a surgical procedure — five times as ...More
March 1, 2008
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CHG Introduces Hand Shower Resistant to Growth of Bacteria

LAKEWOOD, N.J. -- Component Hardware Group (CHG), a leading manufacturer and distributor of plumbing and specialty hardware components for the healthcare, food service, institutional and commercial markets, has developed SaniShower, a hand shower designed for use in ...More
January 10, 2008
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CHG Announces its Saniguard Antimicrobial Coating Proves Effective Against Norovirus

LAKEWOOD, N.J. -- Component Hardware Group (CHG), a leading manufacturer and distributor of plumbing and specialty hardware components to healthcare, food-service, institutional and commercial markets, has successfully tested the protective coating, SANIGUARD, against ...More
September 19, 2007
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Preparing Patients’ Skin Prior to Arriving at Hospital for Surgery Must Improve; More than One-Third of Perioperative Nurses Say Hospital Doesn’t Have a Protocol for Patients to Prepare Skin the Night Before, Morning of Surgery

CARY, Ill. -- In a recent nursing opinion poll, 37 percent of the perioperative nurses who responded said their hospital does not have a preoperative skin preparation protocol in place for patients to follow the night before and the morning of surgery to reduce ...More
May 1, 2007
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