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Infection

April 3, 2017

How effective are UV or misting technologies?

Chemical fumigation was used in the 1960s to supplement standard environmental surface disinfection in hospital isolation rooms (1). As mentioned in

Category iconEnvironment,  Infection,  Disinfection,  Technology Tag iconhow effective?,  Gadi Borkow,  Touchless disinfection,  efficacy

January 24, 2017

What levels of evidence need to be considered when reviewing a touchless disinfection system?

In the last post my colleague Dr Vikram Kanmukhla reviewed in detail the options for touchless disinfection systems as add on to manual cleaning and

Category iconEnvironment,  Infection,  Disinfection,  Technology Tag iconevidence,  hierarchy,  trials outcomes,  Alastair Monk,  Touchless disinfection

January 16, 2017

How effective is manual cleaning in hospitals?

Hospital cleaning depends on many factors, such as the frequencies, methodology and equipment used, monitoring and training of personnel. How these

Category iconInfection,  Disinfection,  Environment Tag iconCleaning,  Disinfection,  Effectiveness,  Gadi Borkow

January 12, 2017

Environmental manual cleaning and disinfection

In previous posts we have reviewed the difference between "clean" and hygienic (see here and here). In this post I wanted to delve deeper into the

Category iconEnvironment,  Infection,  Disinfection Tag iconAlastair Monk,  Disinfectants,  where to disinfect,  how often to disinfect,  what disinfectant to use

January 3, 2017

Review of textiles and environmental soft surfaces as a vector for hospital acquired infections

There has been a rise in the data that supports the environment as one of the important modes of pathogen transmission that contributes significantly

Category iconTextile,  Environment,  Infection Tag iconGadi Borkow,  Infographic,  soft surfaces,  infection,  textile,  infection vector

December 29, 2016

Do linens and environmental soft surfaces playing a role in the infection process?

Textile products, also called soft surfaces are widely used in the hospital environment. Some of these textiles products or soft surfaces are in

Category iconEnvironment,  Infection Tag iconEnvironment,  Contamination,  Environmental role in infection,  soft surfaces,  infection

December 28, 2016

Do hard surfaces play a role in the transmission of nosocomial pathogens

As discussed in our previous blogs, surfaces with frequent hand contact and in close proximity to the patients are often the most colonized with

Category iconEnvironment,  Infection Tag iconHard Surface,  Environmental role in infection,  Gadi Borkow

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