American-Ultraviolet - UVC Operating Room Package
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The American Ultraviolet UVC OR Package offers a fixed solution to help reduce potential pathogens in the OR environment. By using a series of strategically placed UVC disinfection fixtures, the OR Package also helps to:
Product Details
- Protect Patients and Staff
- Improve in-between case and terminal cleaning disinfection in less than 10 minutes
- Minimize staff (no additional employees required)
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Why UVC for the Operating Room?
Studies as far back as 1937, at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, and as recent as 2007, at the Center for Hip and Knee Surgery, St. Francis Hospital-Mooresville, Mooresville, Indiana, report the effectiveness of ultraviolet light disinfection in reducing overall post-surgical infection rates. In the Duke study, during the first five years of use, overall infection rates on clean cases showed a significant decrease from 10% to 0.24%; on the orthopedic service, a decrease from 16.5% to 0.75% was reported. For the next 26 years, the overall infection rate was reduced to 0.34%. 1
The St. Francis study (July 1986 to July 2005) shows the infection rate in operating rooms decreased significantly, from 1.77% to 0.57%, when disinfecting UVC light was used, even when laminar airflow was eliminated. Furthermore, the decrease in the infection rate for total knee replacements was also significant, from 2.2% to 0.5% (p <0.0001). 2
With the already extraordinary, and still increasing, cost of infections (including hospitalization, physician care, nurses' salary, hospital insurance, death benefits in case of death, etc.), it is obvious that reducing infection rates is important. And with health insurance no longer covering healthcare associated infections, proactive hospitals can avoid significant monetary burden by investing in proven technology, ultraviolet light for disinfection, that will help reduce pathogens in the environment.
Why the American Ultraviolet OR Package?
Ultraviolet Germicidal UVC Operating Room Packages from American Ultraviolet are designed to help reduce microbiological burden in the operating room environment with cleansing UVC disinfection light. A pre-programmed control panel with intuitive design allows for quick UVC disinfection as adjunct cleaning technology for use in-between cases and after terminal clean. These fixed UVC systems act exactly like mobile UVC devices, but no longer require additional FTE's, extra device storage and are always available – with the 'push of a button.'
Proven results
19-year longitudinal study shows UVC disinfection light can help reduce risk of post–op infection by 66.67%, as proven by Ritter et al.
Permanent Installation
Unlike a mobile UVC device, which might be somewhere else in your facility, the OR Package is permanently installed in your most critical environment – the OR – and therefore is always present and available for use for UV room disinfection.
Timed Daily Cycle
Simply set it like an alarm clock and, without the need for additional personnel, run the OR Package at full intensity, at any predetermined time the OR will not be in use.
Use Before, During And After A Procedure
Use the American Ultraviolet UVC Operating Room 'Package' to disinfect the OR before and/or after surgical procedures.
The UVC Operating Room Package from American Ultraviolet is inexpensive to install and maintain, and it does not inconvenience others who wish to use the operating rooms, without UVC lamps, as the lamps can simply be turned off.
Since the 1930s UVC light for disinfection has been used to reduce DNA and RNA-based contaminants (bacteria, viruses, fungi, yeast, protozoa), and provide operating room personnel, and patients, with improved UV decontamination.
The OR Package, and many other UVC products manufactured by American Ultraviolet since 1960, have been safely operating in hospitals, laboratories, clean rooms, doctors' offices, commercial buildings, food processing plants and residences throughout the world - any place a concern for disinfection exists. American Ultraviolet is the clear leader in UVC room disinfection, and remains committed to providing the highest quality equipment at the most competitive price.
UVC Dosimeter
The UVC dosimeter™ is a safe and efficient tool that can be used to verify UVC exposure of a surface, or an instrument, throughout all healthcare environments. American Ultraviolet is the Exclusive Distributor of the UVC Dosimeter throughout North America. Learn More.
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