Medical Disinfection Articles
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Healthcare Packaging Validation: Assuring Patient Safety
Sterile medical packaging plays a vital role in protecting patients from harmful bacteria and viruses. However, many processes can damage the integrity of sterile packaging as products move through the supply chain. Improper sterilization techniques, mishandling during shipping, and other mishaps can degrade packaging and cause loss of sterility. Regulatory agencies require all sterile packaging ...
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How to Build a Complete First Aid Kit
Comprehensive Guide to Building and Maintaining First Aid Kits for Home and Emergency Preparedness Introduction Life is full of challenges, from unexpected injuries to sudden emergencies. Some we can prepare for with caution, while others catch us off guard. In these critical times, a first aid kit becomes our frontline defense against unforeseen crises. But are you really ready? Yes, those ...
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Be a germ buster. Wash your hands.
Effective hand hygiene reduces the risk of meat contamination and the transmission of foodborne disease Clean hands are essential to health and effective handwashing is one of the simplest ways to prevent the spread of germs. Hand hygiene is particularly important in minimizing food safety risks along food animal chains, as there are many diseases that can be transmitted to humans from polluted ...
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How Sterile Storage Cabinets Protect Your Medical Supplies Through Multiple Levels of Functionality
Maintaining sterile storage conditions is necessary to protect medical instruments, drugs, surgical implants, and other equipment from contaminants. ARON guidelines on sterilization are straightforward: temperatures should not exceed 72°F (22°C) to 78°F (26°C), relative humidity should not exceed 60%, and airflow should be positive pressure with at least four total air changes per ...
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Understanding the Detergents in Your Daily Life
Every day, we come into contact with a wide variety of detergents commonly used in households, including fabric cleaners, kitchen cleaners, and personal hygiene cleaners. Understanding the different types of detergents and their applications can help us make informed decisions about how we clean and maintain our homes. Fabric Detergents The dirt that accumulates on our clothes and linens can be a ...
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Storing Sterile Medical Supplies: It’s About Controlling the Environment
It is incumbent on hospitals and other medical facilities to maintain sterility wherever needed to keep patients and staff safe. This goes for operating and exam rooms. Healthcare institutions must also safely store surgical scrubs, head covers, sterile surgical implants, equipment, and medication. The goal is to protect these items from contaminants like dust, viruses, and bacteria so they ...
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Norovirus is Spreading More Rapidly – and is on the rise
The very contagious illness, known as the stomach bug, is on the rise. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released data that confirms norovirus cases have seen a nationwide increase, outpacing last year’s numbers so far. The CDC reports that more than 15% of weekly tests for norovirus have come back positive, which is unusually ...
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Four Most Commonly Used Surfactants You Should Know
Surfactants are substances used to reduce the surface tension of target solutions. It has fixed hydrophilic and lipophilic groups and can be aligned on the solution surface. The molecular structure of surfactants is amphoteric, with a hydrophilic end group and a hydrophobic end group. The hydrophilic group is polar and usually consists of carboxylic acid, sulfonic acid, sulfuric acid, amino or ...
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Does This Hand Sanitiser Actually Work?
Over the Covid-19 pandemic, hand sanitiser became an essential tool in our improved hygiene practices. As the world starts to open up again, here at Edinburgh Instruments we are excited to be back attending conferences. The sales and applications team were keen to get on the road again and discuss our work with current and potential customers, but we are keen to help everyone stay safe. That’s ...
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5 Things You Should Be Doing to Fight Coronavirus (COVID-19)
As Coronavirus has now formally been declared a Pandemic by the WHO, there is a lot of varying information around offering best advice. We have pulled together what we feel is the most reliable top 5, these are: 1. Wash Your Hands - Regularly This is one of the main bits of advice globally, and the primary cause in the shortage of hand sanitizers. Luckily production is ramping up and we should ...
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Mill Prevents Covid-19 Outbreak & Continues Operations - Case Study
Situation When the Covid-19 pandemic began, businesses large and small had to move quickly to protect their workforce. By April 2020, widespread government mandates and regulations were put in place for companies to remain operational. The first hurdle for businesses was the sudden need for logging employee temperatures, symptoms, travel to hotspots, Covid-19 exposure, and communicating mask ...
By Redlist
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Shoe Sanitizing Stations for Hospitals
During an early 2020 study in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers swabbed multiple surfaces at a healthcare facility to study aerosol and surface distribution. Around 50% of the samples from healthcare workers’ footwear contained genetic material from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In addition, as medical staff walk around the ward, the virus can be tracked all over the ...
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How to select the best skin repair cream?
In this fast-paced world, most of us don't have time to take care of our bodies. Usually, the most neglected body part is the largest organ of the body, our SKIN. If we don’t take proper care, the skin becomes dry and results in problems like dry, cracked skin, and calluses. Those suffering from eczema, psoriasis, various medical conditions, cold weather exposure, or older age, and ...
By SkinIntegra
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Helping Hands: Pipette’s Sustainable Hand Sanitizer.
While COVID-19 cases are thankfully beginning to decline and we are returning to some semblance of “normal,” it was only a year ago that hospitals were overcrowded, convenient store shelves were empty, and a general sense of uncertainty loomed. At a time when many people were unable to access basic cleaning items, like hand sanitizer, antibacterial soap, and disinfectant wipes, ...
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Not All Masks Are Created Equal
The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) plays a critical role in protecting the United States from threats such as emerging infectious diseases like the most recent outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The FDA holds the highest standards for products on behalf of consumer safety. The Communicator™ surgical mask with clear window is the first FDA approved ADA ...
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An Opinion
First, I hope your family, neighbors, and friends are all healthy and safe. The purpose of this article is not to sell you anything. It is to allow you to understand the importance of disinfection before and after the vaccines are incomplete implementation. Let’s start with why we believe that everyone needs to be diligent, even though there is a vaccine. Remember the Severe Acute ...
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Disinfection is an opportunity
I hope all is well with you, your family, and all those you care about. I want to draw your attention to your customer’s and employees’ perception of your disinfection protocols. This is especially significant during the current COVID crisis, but it is equally important as an ongoing concern for the future, as normal routines become increasingly disrupted. First of all, you need to ...
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Fighting COVID-19 and Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
What is Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB)? Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB), is an opportunistic pathogen primarily associated with hospital-acquired infections. Acinetobacterbaumannii can cause infections in the urinary tract, blood, lungs, and in wound. It can also live in a patient without causing infections or symptoms- this is especially common in ...
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How E-Pak Machinery Creates Machines that Fill Liquid Sanitizers and Wipes
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we live our lives and has defined 2020 as a year. With it came the mass use of disposable masks, sanitary wipes, and liquid sanitizer. E-Pak creates machines that fill liquid sanitizers and wipes, which we use daily, and will likely continue to use them even once the pandemic is over. In this article, we’ll explore these systems, explain how ...
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Disinfectant wipes continue to be in short supply
Disinfectant wipes are used to disinfect handheld non-critical patient care items including stethoscopes, ultrasound machines, and other medical equipment. The disinfection of these items is even more critical during a global pandemic. But throughout the past 9+ months, disinfectant wipes (among other items) have been in short supply and considerably more expensive. In August, the cost of ...
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