Antimicrobial copper # 8230, is not a panacea Antimicrobial copper? Antibacterial soap is already there. And yet - the microbial world is the human environment.
But do not rush, revered, the findings do yourself.
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Whenever a burst of media coverage of some global contagion or simply the approach of autumn with its first chihami and coughs, people are thinking about easy ways to overcome the consequences of infection, and less on protection against him, although the relevance of saying that it is easier to prevent than cure yet no one has canceled.
Rather, in the public mind prevent means meager, but because of inefficient collection and we did not catch the Asian habit of wearing protective bandage healthy and the sick, and of course hand washing. In other words, the struggle for the prevention of infection plays before it starts. Probably in the whole society can live with this approach. And that's exactly where he was unable to come to terms, so it is in health care facilities - health care facilities.
In health care settings where immunocompromised people, especially in intensive care units, the effects of contamination of hospital infections are fatal.
Hence, about four million people in the EU acquire nosocomial infections, and of these, about 37,000 die. In Russia in the context of such an inaccessible, but as a scalable example, take the UK with its 63 million inhabitants and is by no means an ideal situation in the public health system. There, for example, annually acquire infections in hospitals 300,000 people, of which the reason about 5'000 die. In addition to a variable amount of personal expenses, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates the direct costs of nosocomial infections in the amount of 1 billion pounds a year.
These infections, such as MRSA (antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) and C. Deficile are caused by microbes that live and multiply rapidly at the sites and objects, which we touch every day. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria left outside health facilities, and are now found in schools, homes and public transport. Despite the aggressive hand washing campaigns on a regular cleaning surfaces, the spread of infection remain unacceptably high.
To reduce the risk of infections and to improve security including patients, hospital specialists seized on the concept of antimicrobial copper.
Antimicrobial copper has proven to be effective, a wide range of applications and high-speed impact in the suppression of pathogenic microbes in the laboratory and in clinical conditions are significantly lower (significantly) reducing the level of infectious contamination.
Antimicrobial Copper is the only material for touch surfaces, which successfully passed an independent audit of the Agency on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and received the proper registration. This confirms the effectiveness of copper - two hours after contact with the surface provides suppression of more than 99.9% of the bacteria that cause hospital infections.
After obtaining scientific evidence that antimicrobial copper is the most effective antimicrobial touch surface material (touch), launched a global campaign to promote the use of such material for control of pathogens on surfaces in hospitals, public transport, schools and other places nurseries infections.
The three main characteristics make the most effective antimicrobial copper surfaces material for contact by the person:
Permanently kills germs
• Proven scientific efficacy as an antimicrobial agent is much higher than that of silver coatings.
• prove the continuity of the antimicrobial effects.
• The only material from a solid surface, whose antimicrobial effectiveness is confirmed by the Agency on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA).
Never wear out
• The antimicrobial effect of continuous and unlimited, antimicrobial copper in its entirety (not spray).
• The antimicrobial effect even after repeated wet and dry including using abrasives, cleansing and re-contamination.
• The natural oxidation of the surface does not affect the efficiency.
Safe to use
• Copper is harmless to people and the environment.
• Copper antimicrobial in nature - there are no chemical additives.
• Copper is completely recyclable after use.
• Used in health care facilities and at home, and public places
Despite the fact that the result of testing in the copper surfaces during registration procedures in US EPA distant of 2007-2008. found 99.9% inhibition of microorganisms for 2 hours, the subsequent operation of prof. Kivila and prof. Schmidt with a wider range of infections have shown that suppression of many clinically dangerous infections on surfaces of antimicrobial copper requires 5 to 15 minutes. In this sense, interesting online experiment conducted by prof.
Keevil in April 2012 at the University of Southampton (see video URL http://youtu.be/IsYhUQcj7R8).
Management of health facilities have long waited, and other data, data, gross - a statistically significant practical effectiveness of the new technology: how to practically affect the installation of antimicrobial copper surfaces on critical surfaces in hospitals, wards, the overall picture of a secondary infection. Such studies require a lot of time and money, but went quickly after the subject has shown interest and provided additional funding for the Army Medical Department U.S. Armed Forces.
The cycle of large-scale clinical studies prof. M. Schmidt of the University of Yu Carolina showed a decrease by 56% the level of nosocomial infection in the control chambers with individual antimicrobial copper surfaces of the Antimicrobial Copper Cu + TM, compared with the chambers, where the classical measures used to prevent the spread of infections. With all the consequences in the form of a reduction in the number of infected patients, costs and mortality rates.
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