by Advances in UV technology are paving the path to everyday use in acute care facilities. It is being integrated with healthcare’s more traditional surface cleaning tools. Trained users remove from a patient room those fragile items that might sustain physical damage. Visible surface soils are cleaned with spray cleaners and wipes. Remaining furnishings and equipment are positioned to minimize “shadows”, those surfaces escaping the direct light-lines. The “robot” is then released for a fast and effective germ deactivation on both hard and soft surfaces. This process is fast and very effective. An example of this solution provided by Xenex Corporation is described in the link below.
UV has been at-the-ready for many years in the hospitals’ pathogen control arsenal. UV energy passes through the cell walls of bacteria, viruses and bacterial spores, deactivating them all.
UV – C is the spectrum of light produced by either Mercury or Xenon. UV-C can be produced by millisecond pulses of a xenon lamp as described in the above interview. Pulsed Xenon UV (PX-UV) produces a flash of light containing a spectrum covering the entire germicidal UV band. Pulsed Xenon is several times faster than Mercury UV.
