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The partnership will enable industry experts and hospital management to work together to ensure clean and safe hospitals for patients. Dublin, Ireland – June 20, 2019 – Novaerus, an Irish company specialising in air dis-infection using patented ultra-low energy plasma, has -
Nine days after returning home from a Mediterranean cruise, a Sardinian woman developed a rash. She visited a hospital emergency department, was diagnosed with measles, and remained hospitalized for three days. While infectious, she transmitted the disease to six people: -
Read part one of this two-part blog here. How Hospitals Can Prevent Infection Among Staff Public health experts agree: Healthcare workers are at significant risk for catching and spreading infectious diseases, and hospitals must take “aggressive efforts” to prevent transmission -
Given the massive infection crisis facing hospitals worldwide, protecting patients from pathogens is a critical priority. But what about protecting staff? Though patients, as a whole, are more vulnerable to infection than the healthy nurses, doctors, and aides who care -
Read part 1 of this blog post here. MRSA in the Air Surfaces can become contaminated with MRSA by the touch of a colonized or infected person— or when airborne MRSA particles settle on these surfaces. As mounting research confirms, airborne -
VRE, CRE, C. diff., CRKP — healthcare facilities have no shortage of dangerous bacteria to contend with. Among the most worrisome in this alphabet soup of superbugs: MRSA. Easily spread and notoriously resilient, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus continues to invade the -
Read part 1 of this blog post here. The Limits of Hospital Surface Cleaning Infection outbreaks have been traced to all kinds of contaminated surfaces: sinks, computer keyboards, supply carts, stretchers, IV poles, telephone handles, stethoscopes, blood pressure cuffs, ultrasound -
No hospital, in Hungary or elsewhere, is immune to the spread of dangerous infections among patients. Each day, an estimated 1.4 million patients worldwide contract an infection while hospitalized. Each year in Hungary, more than 15,000 hospital patients become infected, -
Read Part 1 of this blog post here. Preventing C. Difficile Infection: 4 Critical Strategies Infection-control experts agree: containing CDI is an urgent global priority, given the emergence of more potent C. difficile strains and the ageing of the developed -
For decades, Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) was dismissed by doctors as “annoying but easy to treat” — a common but not especially threatening cause of diarrhoea and colon inflammation. No longer. “An alarming increase in the incidence of CDI” has been -
We are thrilled to announce that Novaerus is one of a handful of innovative companies that has been selected to exhibit within the Innovation Pavilion at Future Healthcare UK 2019 and pitch our new Defend 1050 air disinfection unit to a line-up of VIP judges that drive innovation in the -
Part 2 of Hospital Acquired Infections in China: How Air-Disinfection Technology Can Help Read part 1 here. Three Critical Strategies for Reducing Hospital-Acquired Infection Given these challenges, any serious plan to control hospital-acquired infections requires a combination of three strategies:
