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mtsr

03/05/14 12:28 AM

#33676 RE: Tane61 #33670

Since i knew you would jump on this lets look at some things.

"Tests run by the (Center for Disease Control) couldn't detect bacteria in the rooms after using the Halo fogger," said Salkin. "That makes it a very useful tool especially in cleaning rooms that may have organisms that are very hard to treat, such as clostridium difficile, or C. diff."

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(If it currently costs Medizone ~$50,000 to produce a system...???)

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SVMC pleased with results of new bacteria-killing fog devices

BENNINGTON -- Patients picking up infections during their stays is an old problem for hospitals, and to combat it the local medical center has a new piece of technology that uses fog to kill bacteria.

For the past year and a half Southwestern Vermont Medical Center had made use of two "Sanosil Halo Foggers." About the size of a garbage can, the devices are put into a room after it has been thoroughly cleaned the old fashioned way,

You still have to clean the room first you don,t need to do that with ASURE

then turned on once the room is sealed up and fills with a special antiseptic mist made of hydrogen peroxide and colloidal silver. The treatment leaves no residue or odor and the chemicals turn to water
Not good for electronics water causes corrsion.

and oxygen by the end of the process. All bacteria in the room, however, are left dead.

Wilma Salkin, infection prevention coordinator at SVMC, said the devices are not used every time a room needs to be turned over, but are reserved for rooms where a patient had a particularly infectious type of bacteria, or one that does not go away easily.

She said each machine costs about $5,000 and it costs $4 to treat a room. The hospital bought two 18 months ago, then a third unit for the Centers for Living and Rehabilitation, which is under Southwestern Vermont Health Care, SVMC's parent company. The hospital had considered purchasing a device that uses ultraviolet light, but the fog gets into places light does not.

Salkin said the hospital's rates of infection were already low, and there appears to have been a dip since the foggers were put into use,

So they are not really sure if it works or not by this statement.

but it is difficult to say for certain.

"Tests run by the (Center for Disease Control) couldn't detect bacteria in the rooms after using the Halo fogger," said Salkin. "That makes it a very useful tool especially in cleaning rooms that may have organisms that are very hard to treat, such as clostridium difficile, or C. diff."

C. diff can cause diarrhea in patients with weakened immune systems. The fogger also kills bacteria resistant to antibiotics. Salkin said once a room is cleaned normally it takes about an hour to seal it and run the fogger. The machines can fog a room of just about any size depending on how long they are left to run.

http://www.reformer.com/morelocalnews/ci_25224323/svmc-pleased-results-new-bacteria-killing-fog-devices
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Juanovan

03/05/14 6:26 AM

#33679 RE: Tane61 #33670

So what I gathered from all of that is that Xenex isn't afraid of Halo and MZEI shouldn't be either.
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Tane61

03/05/14 9:21 AM

#33682 RE: Tane61 #33670

Medizone: "ENHANCED DAY-TO-DAY CLEANING PROCEDURES"

December, 2012
Mike Shannon: "Medizone is now looking at ways of integrating Asepticsure into a comprehensive program - one that would involve improved patient and staff education, enhanced day-to-day cleaning procedures and even improved disinfection solutions"

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"ENHANCED DAY-TO-DAY CLEANING"?

IMPROVED DISINFECTION SOLUTIONS?

Obviously ozone-hydrogen peroxide alone does not get the job done?

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Medizone introduces a vapor into the space to be treated comprising 99% "WATER"???

Ozone can be very corrosive: http://www.ozonesolutions.com/info/ozone-compatible-materials

Is it OZONE that has the potential to damage HOSPITAL OPTICS necessitating instructions to REMOVE ALL HOSPITAL OPTICS FROM THE SPACE TO BE TREATED WITH OZONE-HYDROGEN PEROXIDE?

OZONE AND ELECTRONICS?