HAI Infections

HAIs and partition curtains

Hospital-acquired infections are increasingly prevalent.

In Italy, where UV-C Blinds was created, about 500,000 patients out of 9,500,000 hospitalised each year contract an infection in hospital. Of these, between 3% and 5% die.

(Source: Department of Public Health, University of Florence)

In just one week 92% of curtains are contaminated with bacteria

This was demonstrated by a 2012 study conducted by the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City (United States).

HAI STATISTICS

Study conducted (in Italy) in the period October-November 2016 with the participation of 135 hospitals from 19 regions/autonomous provinces.

The sample included 14,773 patients in 264 ± 246 patients per facility, median 207 and range (28-1,040).

Patients were in the following departments:

MEDICAL SPECIALITIES

6,188 patients (41.6%)

SURGICAL SPECIALITIES

4,377 patients (29.6%)

INTENSIVE CARE

689 patients  (4,7%)

GYNAECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS

680 patients (4,6%)

PEDIATRICS

570 patients (3,9%)

REHABILITATION

566 patients (3,8%)

COMBINATION OF SPECIALITIES

421 patients (2,8%)

NEONATOLOGY

 383 patients (2,6%)

GERIATRICS

326 patients (2,2%)

PSYCHIATRY

319 patients (2,2%)

LONG TERM

225 patients (1,5%)

OTHER SPECIALTIES, NOT IN LIST

68 patients (0,5%)

THE PREVALENCE OF PATIENTS WITH AT LEAST ONE HEALTHCARE-ACQUIRED INFECTION IS 8.03% (1,186 CASES)

Calculated as the number of patients with at least one HAI out of the total eligible patients

Of 67 types of pathogens identified as responsible for HAIs:

  • Escherichia coli (13%)
  • Klebsiella pneumoniae (10.4%)
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa (8.1%)
  • Staphylococcus aureus (8.9%)
  • Staphylococcus epidermidis (6.3%)

account for more than 45% of all isolations

The solution from now on is UV-C BLIND: a system that’s so easy to use that it doesn’t involve long disinfection procedures or new chapters in elaborate protocols.

A simple button to press for immediate disinfection, performed whenever you want and with an immediate reduction in costs related to hospital infections, cleaning and related personnel.

Explore UV-C BLIND