UK - Results from a National Health Service (NHS) trial, which investigated the effectiveness of silver at reducing levels of bacteria in an actual hospital setting, have been announced by BioCote Ltd, manufacturer of antimicrobial products.
UK - A new range of benchtop ultrasonic cleaners are being launched at MEDICA by manufacturer Ultrawave.
Gama Healthcare has developed an advanced innovative wipe — Clinell Sporicidal — which, the company reports, is the world's first peracetic acid generating wipe specifically designed to deal with spores.
GAMA Healthcare has developed an advanced innovative wipe called Clinell Sporicidal: This is the world's first peracetic acid generating wipe which has been specifically designed to deal with spores. This technologically advanced wipe was developed by a team of medical doctors and contains patent pending technology designed around the stability of the peracetic acid.
During modernisation previously installed machines in contaminated hospital sluice rooms must comply with the same Medical Devices Act requirements as new machines, the specialist firm Meiko Maschinenbau GmbH & Co points out.
That tap water carries pathogens such as legionella or pseudomonas aeruginosa is well known, writes Heidi Heinhold. However, new research results show that bacteria that were previously considered non-pathogenic, such as coagulase-negative staphylococci (CONS), can be present in hospital water and are transmitted by the water
The 134-bed private hospital Dr R Schindlbeck private hospital in Herrsching am Ammersee, Bavaria, which also has a large out-patient department, provides 110 units for use after hand washing by staff, patients and visitors. From the Katrin range by Metsä Tissue, Finnish producer of paper towels and dispensing systems, they consist of paper towel rolls and dispensers.
The British Midlands' University of Nottingham discovered a possible vaccine for use in the treatment of Hepatits C. At the 161st. meeting of the Society for General Microbiology in Edinburgh, UK, a paper titled “Human Antibodies to Hepatits C Virus – Potential for Vaccine Design” was presented.
Stupid people always make the same mistakes, intelligent people learn from their own mistakes; wise people observe others and learn from them. Global player, Metsä Tissue has made this pearl of wisdom their own and analysed the market in full including competitors and users.
By Professor Giovanni Battista Migliori MD, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Control of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases.
During modernisation, the law governing machines already installed in contaminated hospital sluice rooms in exactly the same way as new machines, i.e. they must comply with the same Medical Devices Act requirements as new machines.
Could a computer programme help? Recommendations of the Robert-Koch-Institute
By Professor Jan Kluytmans MD, of the Microbiology and Infection Control Laboratory, Amphia Hospital, Breda
With entries from infection control teams from all over the world, with each hospital facing different challenges and with widely differing resources at their disposal, judges working on the 2006/2007 Oxoid Infection Control Team of the Year Awards focused on teams that had demonstrated that they really made a difference to standards of infection control within their own hospitals and have set…
Made in Germany, the Induproof-Series includes keyboards and mouse (InduMouse) that are completely sealed to IP68 standards. They can be cleaned with disinfecting wipes and, impressively, submerged up to three metres in liquid or cleaned with high-pressure water jets, the manufacturer reports.
Komet Medical has developed rotating and oscillating instruments since 1923.
After their debut at the 2005 Medica trade show, the first LED lamp made by Trumpf Medizin Systeme (iLED) found new users worldwide.
The methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the most common causes of life threatening infections among hospital patients. What makes the bacterium that dangerous is the fact, that due to unspecific symptoms and long lasting testing procedures its detection takes too long. A new test that delivers results in just five hours now offers the possibility of a MRSA screening for…
Despite thorough cleansing, endoscopy tools can be re-contaminated because non-sterile water is used for the final rinse.
At second instance a Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses to death. The healthcare workers are accused of allegedly infecting more than 400 children in Libya with HIV through contaminated blood products. Now Bulgaria will bring charges against 11 Libyan police officers for torturing the nurses into confessing that crime, that they allegedly did not commit.
Fortunately, the influenza virus has not swapped over to Germany yet because the country has enough to do with the norovirus which is expected to attack up to one million people during the next weeks. People affected by the virus suffer from strong nausea and diarrhoea that last at least two days.
Nosocomial infections are all too common in our hospitals. For example, in Germany alone (according to the German Company for Hospital Hygiene - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Krankenhaushygiene), each year 40,000 patients contract bacterial infections, some fatal.
The new single door PG 8527 and two door PG 8528 large-cabinet decontamination units for instrument reprocessing (on sale from March 2007) adapt easily to changing workloads in hospital CSSD units and a variety of other needs, their manufacturer Miele reports. Both units use either the firm's new OxiVario or OrthoVario disinfection programmes.
Sysmex urine fluorescence flow cytometers offer a wide variety of clinical benefits to the user, including determination of WBC, bacteria and yeasts to exclude urinary tract infections and/or inflammations very quickly.
