Hospital infection - MRSA
A new system against hospital infections
The danger from hospital infections is worsening because, increasingly, they cannot be cured with commonly used antibiotics. In 1974, only 2% of Staphylococcus aureus infections in the USA were MRSA (methicillin-resistant). By 2003, that figure had soared to 57%, and now is over 60%.
Infections contracted in hospitals are the fourth largest killer in America. Every year in this country, two million patients' contract infections in hospitals, and an estimated 103,000 die as a result, as many deaths as from AIDS, breast cancer, and auto accidents combined.
When a patient contracts an infection and stays in the hospital weeks or even months longer, the hospital is seldom paid for the added stay and care. The average charge for patients who develop an infection is nearly four times as high as for patients admitted with the same diagnosis and severity of illness who did not contract an infection.
To fight against hospital infections and the more and more resistant bacteria’s it has been developed Toul Mobile Laminar Airflow.
Ironically, the use of ultraclean airflow may
help to convey airborne particles from the surgical team
into the operating field and thereby increase direct airborne
contamination of the wound. Every minute, an individual
emits thousands of airborne particles carrying bacteria
that may contaminate an open surgical
wound.
Toul Meditech has therefore developed a new mobile laminar airflow system which can be used in every operating room in addition to the existing ventilation system without installation costs.
Conventional airflow systems do mostly not arrive at the operating field as they are hindered by the surgical light and the heads of the operating team.
Toul is positioned very close to the operating field and therefore it is possible to reduce the contamination level up to 90 % for the operating field and Toul instrument table.
This technology has been used for more than 6 years in various hospitals in Sweden with success. They reduced their surgical infection rate below 1 % which saves the hospital money for extra treatment and longer hospital stays.
Toul is also an excellent solution for field hospitals as it creates immediately sterile conditions wherever you need it.
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