Environmental effectiveness of pulsed-xenon light in the operating room

Portable pulsed xenon ultraviolet light disinfection in a teaching hospital animal laboratory in China

“…Name of the bacteria identified on surface of the [5,7]. Inherent human error often results in incomplete cleaning, as demonstrated by our study.…”

“…Pulsed xenon ultraviolet (PX-UV) is proven as an effective tool for disinfection of pathogens in various hospital settings, including wards [2][3][4][5][6], operating rooms [7], surgical sites [8,9], nursing rooms [10], human milk feeding rooms [11], and burns units [12]; and this disinfectant effect also applies to clinical laboratories and blood sampling rooms in China [13,14]. However, the effectiveness of PX-UV in disinfection of a hospital animal laboratory is unstudied.…”

Pulsed xenon ultraviolet and non-thermal atmospheric plasma treatments are effective for the disinfection of air in hospital blood sampling rooms

“…Medical devices used by multiple patients are often inadequately cleaned by manual measures [6]. Therefore automated cleaning systems, such as pulsed xenon ultraviolet (PX-UV), are innovations designed to disinfect hospital environments of different settings, such as wards [7][8][9][10][11], burns units [12], milk feed preparation rooms [13], operation rooms [14,15], surgical sites [16,17], nursing homes [18], long-term acute care facilities [19], isolation rooms [20], and community hospitals [21,22].…”

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“…Ultraviolet (UV) light for environmental cleaning in the OR. Contamination remaining on OR surfaces after manual cleaning can result in pathogen transmission to the hands of personnel . Use of such technologies as UV light or saturated steam with manual cleaning may reduce this residual contamination .…”

“…Contamination remaining on OR surfaces after manual cleaning can result in pathogen transmission to the hands of personnel . Use of such technologies as UV light or saturated steam with manual cleaning may reduce this residual contamination . AORN indicates that an interdisciplinary team can evaluate these methods as adjuncts to terminal cleaning, but more research on their applicability in the perioperative environment is warranted .…”