Therapy Areas: Infectious Diseases
Ochsner Medical Center Reports 49% Decrease in Infection Rates After Germ-Fighting Robots Deployed to Disinfect Patient Rooms
20 December 2017 - - New Orleans, US-based hospital operator Ochsner Health System participated in the Xenex No Risk Infection Rate Reduction Program and reported favourable results, US-based UV room disinfection system provider Xenex said.

Recognising the growing threat of antibiotic resistance and superbugs, Ochsner Medical Center Jefferson Highway recently deployed a fleet of Xenex LightStrikeGerm-Zapping Robots.

Data analysis of the first 90 days of the program demonstrated that the hospital experienced a 49% reduction in Clostridium difficile (C.diff) and 49% reduction in overall infection rates after adding LightStrike pulsed xenon ultraviolet light room disinfection to its cleaning protocol.

LightStrike Robots quickly destroy microscopic pathogens and multi-drug resistant organisms and are used in addition to the routine cleaning procedures that currently take place as an extra level of protection against infection.

In August 2017, Ochsner deployed 10 LightStrike Robots at its Jefferson Highway campus to enhance the room disinfection process in the hospital.

The LightStrike Robots were provided under Xenex's No Risk Infection Rate Reduction Program. Ochsner evaluated the success of its LightStrike program based upon specific reductions in C.diff, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Vancomycin-resistant enterococci infection rates.

From the launch of the program and throughout its duration, the hospital's Environmental Services team was able to achieve 95% utilisation of the robots on room discharges and transfers.

As a result of the successful implementation and infection rate reductions, the hospital is expanding its program with 10 additional robots.

Xenex's germ-fighting robots use pulsed xenon, an environmentally-friendly noble gas, to create intense, Full Spectrum UV light that destroys infectious germs in less than five minutes.

Hospitals using Xenex devices have published clinical outcome studies in peer-reviewed journals showing 50-100 % decreases in C.diff, MRSA and Surgical Site Infection rates when those hospitals used the Xenex Robots to disinfect rooms.

Ochsner Health System is Louisiana's largest non-profit, academic, healthcare system. Patient care is provided across the region by Ochsner's 30 owned, managed and affiliated hospitals and more than 80 health centres and urgent care centres.

Xenex's patented Full Spectrum pulsed xenon UV room disinfection system is used for the advanced disinfection of healthcare facilities.
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