Editor’s Note: This press release originally appeared on Tru-D’s website.
Memphis, TN- June 17, 2016 – Tru-D SmartUVC and UVC room disinfection technology was yet again a focal point of keynote addresses and conference sessions throughout the annual APIC conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, June 10-13, 2016. With more than 3,000 leading infection preventionists at the conference and the U.S.’s largest infection prevention technology trade fair, members of the Tru-D team enjoyed sharing innovations around the only UVC room disinfection robot with a large-scale, well-controlled, randomized clinical trial. The APIC Conference sent infection preventionists back to their local hospitals with three main main takeaways from the event.
Responsibility for the Future
Among the key takeaways of the event was a challenge by Dr. William A. Rutala to eliminate all hospital-acquired infections related to instruments and the environment within five years through research, technology automation and competency.
“We know that we have evidence that the environment contributes to HAIs. We also know surfaces are contaminated about 25% of the time. We know these pathogens can survive for days, weeks and months, and contact with these surfaces results in contamination. We know disinfection reduces HAIs. We also know that rooms are not being adequately clean. And that admission to a room that had a pathogen results in the new patient having an increased risk of acquiring an HAI by 39-353%,” said Rutala.
In order to eliminate the environment as a source of infection, Rutala stressed, “We have to consider no-touch technology to supplement, but not replace, surface disinfection. This technology should be used for terminal room disinfection after discharge of patients on contact precautions.”
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