Infection Control Today - Ultraviolet Light

Hospitals Using UV Light to Check Efficacy of its Cleaning Efforts

The Vancouver Sun is reporting on efforts by hospitals under the auspices of the Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA) to check on the efficacy of its hygiene efforts by using hand-held ultraviolet lights. VIHA staff will identify and mark 10 high-touch areas in a ...More

3 weeks ago

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene

FDA Clears Vioguard Self-Sanitizing Keyboard

Vioguard™LLC announces that the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the company’s first product, the Vioguard self-sanitizing computer keyboard, for use in healthcare settings. The product is the first FDA-cleared computer keyboard to use the germicidal ...More

January 4, 2012

Posted in News

Regional Medical Center is Disinfecting Rooms with Ultraviolet Rays

The Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg & Calhoun Counties has a new tool in the fight against infection: a bright, blue light. RMC is the first hospital in South Carolina to acquire a Total Room Ultraviolet Disinfector (Tru-D). Used with regular cleaning, officials ...More

December 15, 2011

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene

Germgard Lighting Develops UVC Dispenser to Decontaminate Bare and Gloved Hands

Germgard Lighting has developed and tested a small UVC dispenser, specifically designed for instantly and safely decontaminating bare and gloved hands. It is designed to achieve -6log10 inactivation in less than 3 seconds of all relevant pathogens, including antibiotic ...More

September 16, 2011

Posted in News, Hand Hygiene

New Research Validates Previous Studies Showing Tru-D Reduces Contamination on Surfaces

In an original article coauthored by John M. Boyce, MD; Nancy L. Havill, MT; and Brent A. Moore, PhD, "Terminal Decontamination of Patient Rooms Using an Automated Mobile UV Light Unit" (Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, August 2011), the research team from the ...More

August 18, 2011

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene

Crothall Healthcare Chooses American Ultraviolet's ARTZ Mobile Room Disinfection System

Healthcare support services provider Crothall Healthcare recently announced its selection of American Ultraviolet (AUV) as its preferred partner for healthcare room disinfection. The ARTZ (Automatically Reliably Targeting Zero) Mobile Room UVC Germicidal Solution uses ...More

August 18, 2011

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene

UV Light Aids Terminal Decontamination of Patient Rooms

Investigators from the Hospital of Saint Raphael and the Yale University School of Medicine found that a mobile ultraviolet light (UV-C) unit significantly reduced aerobic colony counts and C. difficile spores on contaminated surfaces in hospital patient rooms. Their ...More

August 4, 2011

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene

Germgard Lighting Demonstrates Two-Second, Bare- and Gloved-Hand Sterilization

Germgard Lighting announces it has developed, tested and confirmed by independent testing that a small UVC dispenser, specifically designed for sterilizing bare or gloved hands safely and quickly, achieves -6log10 inactivation of all relevant pathogens, including ...More

June 23, 2011

Posted in News, Hand Hygiene

Philips Distributes Solution for Reduction of Environmental Pathogens in Healthcare Facilities

Royal Philips Electronics announces an agreement with Lumalier Corporation to address the growing problem of microbial contamination in hospitals. At this year’s annual scientific meeting of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology ...More

June 21, 2011

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene

Are Infections Caused by Aspergillus Fungi Developing Drug Resistance?

A study recently published in Clinical Infectious Diseases discovered azole-resistance markers in 75 percent of a small group of aspergillosis patients who had not previously been treated with an azole. The research was conducted by the University of Manchester working with ...More

June 2, 2011

Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene

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