Hospitals need to be sanitized to keep dangerous infections from spreading. Most standard procedures involves chemicals and some good old fashioned elbow grease to clean patient rooms. The Vancouver General Hospital has decided to take their cleaning to the next level with Trudi, a Tru-D SmartUVC, that is the first of its kind in Canada. The device uses UV to eliminate harmful elements from hospital room and helps protect patients against dangerous infections like norovirus and C. difficile. Trudi is part of a pilot project taking place in British Columbia that will test out similar devices for five months. The results will be used to approve the Tru-D technology for permanent use in the Canadian Province.
Trudi is Tru-D is 1.65 meters tall and has vertical bulbs that surround a round shaft int he middle. Hospital staff wheel the device in to a room that has already been cleaned by hand. The device automatically figures out how much UV will be needed for the room depending on its size and runs for 15 minutes to one hour to disinfect the area. It is mean as an added method of disinfection as opposed to the primary method.
Dr. Elizabeth Bryce, medical director for infection control at Vancouver Coastal Health, say a demonstration of the device and said, “We’ve been very impressed with the almost complete eradication of organisms, even when we take it to high concentrations. We hope it will decrease the rates of hospital-acquired organisms like superbugs.”
Tru-D was started being put through its paces in January and after the five-month pilot another device named PulseRx will also be tested. The provincial government will look at the cost and benefits of these devices after the tests to determined if they will shell out the $100,000 required for just one unit.
Bryce’s Vancouver-based hospital has been utilizing Tru-D over the past three months and states that, “We did use it in the norovirus season as an add-on to the cleaning, and we’re very pleased with that, as well.”
There are many hospitals in the US that are already using Tru-D and Bryce claims they are getting good results. Hospitals usually have experience with UV and Bryce explains that, “UV is not new as a disinfection technology, but it’s new in being applied to cleaning patient rooms.”
Source: Vancouver Sun
Image: Tru D SmartUVC
Facebook’s Face Recognition Tag Suggestion Feature Makes Come Back In U.S.
250,000 Twitter Users Effected By Sophisticated Hacker Attack
Lunches So Good Kids Can’t Ignore Them
Invigorating Ginger Smoothie
The U.K.’s Youngest Parents Ever
The new hair Jennifer Lawrence