Cleaning Hospital Rooms with Chemicals, UV Rays Cuts Superbug Transmissions

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Oct 8, 2015/ 0 Comments / in News / by

In a hospital, what you can’t see could hurt you. Healthcare facilities continue to battle drug-resistant organisms such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that loiter on surfaces even after patient rooms have been cleaned and can cause new, sometimes-deadly infections. But a new study from Duke Medicine has found that using a combination of chemicals and UV light to clean patient rooms cut transmission of four major superbugs by a cumulative 30 percent among a specific group of patients — those who stay overnight in a room where someone with a known positive culture or infection of a drug-resistant organism had previously been treated.

Source: http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2015/10/cleaning-hospital-rooms-with-chemicals-uv-rays-cuts-superbug-transmissions.aspx

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