Every five minutes, a patient dies from a healthcare-associated infection (HAI). Surfaces transmit microbes that cause deadly infections and pose a serious risk to patient safety. Cleanspect™ is dedicated to stopping this hidden threat.
Microbes move within healthcare settings via surfaces, yet most infection prevention strategies overlook surface safety issues beyond routine cleaning. This oversight contributes to poor patient outcomes, including prolonged hospital stays, increased morbidity, and mortality. In the United States, 75,000 patients die every year from healthcare-associated infections, often caused by multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) like Clostridium difficile. Cleanspect™ can help infection control and prevention specialists by inspecting surfaces and detecting bacteria and biofilm surface contamination to prevent contagious microbial illnesses.
MDROs are challenging to detect and often inadequately disinfected in hospital environments. Patients who enter contaminated hospital rooms are more likely to acquire these organisms. Additionally, healthcare workers play a critical role in transmitting pathogens from patient to patient. Contaminated environments also contribute significantly to pathogen transmission. Cleanspect™ provides advanced detection technology, ensuring that infection control and prevention specialists can accurately identify and address contamination sources.
Disinfecting high-touch surfaces is essential because they can be reservoirs for infectious agents. High-touch surfaces near patients have a higher bioburden, leading to secondary transmission through direct contact with patients or via healthcare workers’ hands and visitors. Proper cleaning and disinfection in healthcare environments can reduce HAIs. Therefore, environmental cleaning and disinfection are vital components of a comprehensive strategy to eliminate HAIs, especially in units with immunocompromised patients. Cleanspect™ aids in identifying high-contamination areas, ensuring comprehensive cleaning and disinfection.
Despite improved cleaning interventions, 5-30% of surfaces remain potentially contaminated because existing detergent formulations and disinfectants fail to disrupt biofilms. High-touch site-focused cleaning may also contribute to inadequate decontamination of the hospital environment, leading to cross-contamination of low-touch areas. Consequently, these areas can become reservoirs of significant pathogens, contributing to the hospital-wide spread of MDROs. Cleanspect™ offers a comprehensive solution by detecting contamination across all surfaces, enabling targeted and effective cleaning strategies.
Improperly disinfected surfaces in healthcare facilities are a leading cause of healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs), which claim a life every five minutes in the U.S. The complexity of disinfecting surfaces extends beyond merely killing microbes; it involves ensuring that disinfectants are compatible with the surfaces they are used on. Incompatible disinfectants can cause damage, creating microbial reservoirs that harbor deadly microbes and making effective disinfection nearly impossible. Cleanspect™ leverages advanced AI-powered multispectral fluorescence imaging to detect microbes and organic residues on surfaces.
If a site shows recurrent microbial contamination, it may indicate surface damage caused by incompatible detergents or cleaning supplies. The detection of fluorescence on a surface serves as a surrogate for identifying such damage, ensuring thorough inspection and safety. This technology helps maintain the functionality of critical equipment and protects both patients and healthcare workers from HAIs by addressing surface disinfectant incompatibility and preventing microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC).
Cleanspect™ is an invaluable tool for infection control and prevention specialists. It provides detailed insights into surface contamination and ensures surface disinfectant compatibility, preventing the formation of microbial reservoirs and maintaining a clean and safe environment. Regular corrosion assessments and early intervention strategies can be implemented to mitigate the impact of MIC, safeguarding patients and staff.
Understanding and addressing surface disinfectant incompatibility is crucial, as studies have shown that HAIs kill approximately 100,000 people annually in the U.S. and result in billions of dollars in healthcare costs. By ensuring that every surface is thoroughly inspected and free from dangerous microbial contamination, Cleanspect™ helps prevent HAIs and maintain the integrity of critical healthcare equipment. How will you ensure the highest standards of cleanliness and safety in your facility?
The successful elimination of HAIs requires an all-touch-site strategy incorporating technology to scan all surfaces to detect bacteria, mold, and biofilm locations, optimizing cleaning and disinfection. Cleanspect™‘s AI-powered multispectral fluorescence image-guided surface contamination detection technology can instantly identify bacteria, biofilm, and mold on various surfaces across large areas, making it an ideal tool for a comprehensive all-touch-site strategy to eliminate HAIs.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1 in 31 patients will acquire at least one healthcare-associated infection while being treated for something unrelated. Patients who occupy a room where a previous patient had an HAI have a 25% chance of acquiring the same infection, despite efforts to follow cleaning and disinfecting protocols. Cleanspect™ helps mitigate this risk by providing precise detection of residual contamination, ensuring thorough cleaning.
Pathogenic organisms can survive on surfaces for weeks, months, and even years, despite cleaning and disinfection. Surfaces where microbes tend to settle include textiles (e.g., privacy curtains, bed linens, pillows) and hard surfaces inside patient rooms and bathrooms (e.g., toilets, floors, soap dispensers, sink drains). Patient care equipment, including blood pressure cuffs, suctioning systems, and medical devices (e.g., endoscopes, IVs, ventilators), are also susceptible. Cleanspect™ can inspect these surfaces for contamination, ensuring a safer environment for patients and healthcare workers.
Current methods for microbiological monitoring of surfaces, based on bacterial culturability, are insufficient. There is a need to integrate the concept of DSBs, which contain viable but non-culturable bacteria, into surface monitoring and cleaning protocols. Cleanspect™‘s advanced detection technology addresses this need by identifying bacterial contamination that traditional methods might miss.
Microbial biofilms, both wet and dry, amplify the challenge of complete surface decontamination. Biofilms are three-dimensional structures formed after microorganisms adhere to surfaces, followed by colonization and production of an extracellular polysaccharide matrix (EPS). These biofilms can survive for extended periods without nutrition or hydration, complicating environmental cleaning and disinfection.
Dry surface biofilms (DSBs) represent a particularly insidious form of biofilm that can persist on surfaces for over 12 months without hydration. DSBs form on dry surfaces and are subjected to osmotic stress, which enhances their resilience. DSBs contain a significant amount of viable but non-culturable bacteria, making them difficult to detect and remove with standard cleaning methods.
Recent studies highlight that more than 50% of DSBs recovered from hospital surfaces contain Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium responsible for serious infections worldwide. The presence of DSBs on high-touch surfaces significantly complicates the task of maintaining a sterile environment. Their resistance to conventional disinfectants and ability to serve as reservoirs for pathogens make DSBs a critical target for improved cleaning protocols and technologies.
Cleanspect™ can effectively identify DSBs, ensuring that even the most resilient biofilms are detected and addressed, significantly improving infection control measures.
Hydrated biofilms form in moist environments and are typically easier to disrupt with standard cleaning agents. They thrive in fluids, making them more susceptible to hydration-dependent disinfectants. In contrast, dry surface biofilms (DSBs) form on dry surfaces and are subjected to osmotic stress, making them more resistant to cleaning and disinfection. DSBs have a thicker extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) matrix, which provides additional protection against desiccation and disinfectants.
Biofilms account for 65% of HAIs, including those on indwelling medical devices and environmental surfaces in healthcare facilities. Biofilms are more difficult to remove and more tolerant of disinfectants, functioning as reservoirs of pathogens. Dry surface biofilms (DSBs) can survive for over 12 months without hydration, posing a significant threat to healthcare settings.
The resilience of DSBs poses a significant challenge for healthcare facilities. Traditional cleaning methods often fail to remove these biofilms, allowing them to persist and potentially spread pathogens. Cleanspect™ provides the advanced detection capabilities needed to identify both hydrated and dry surface biofilms, ensuring thorough decontamination and reducing the risk of HAIs in every healthcare facility.
In the ever-evolving landscape of infection control, Cleanspect™ stands as a beacon of hope for Ambulatory Surgery Centers seeking to fortify their defenses against HAIs. With its AI-Powered Multispectral Fluorescence Image-Guided Surface Contamination Detection, Cleanspect™ not only reveals hidden threats but also empowers infection control specialists to take decisive action. So, as we forge ahead in our quest for safer healthcare environments, let us ask ourselves: Are we willing to embrace innovation to protect those in our care?
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As we navigate the complexities of healthcare, one truth remains constant: cleanliness saves lives. With Cleanspect™ leading the charge, CCLs can rise to new heights of safety and excellence. So, as we embark on this journey together, let us ask ourselves: Are we ready to embrace innovation and redefine the standard of care in cardiac catheterization?
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As dental clinics strive to provide optimal care in an increasingly complex healthcare landscape, innovation is key. Cleanspect™ sets a new standard of cleanliness, revolutionizing infection control practices and safeguarding patient health. So, as we look to the future of dental care, let us ask ourselves: Are we ready to embrace the power of Cleanspect™ to elevate infection control in our clinics?
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As Dialysis Centers continue to strive for excellence in patient care, infection prevention remains a top priority. With Cleanspect™ AI-Powered Multispectral Fluorescence Image-Guided Surface Contamination Detection, Dialysis Centers can embrace the future of infection control with certainty. Are you ready to elevate your infection prevention efforts and protect your patients like never before?
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To ensure the safety of their patients, their ambulances, medevacs, and apparatuses must be effectively cleaned and sanitized to prevent contamination and the spread of infection. Cleanspect™’s Cleaning Verification enables EMS providers to quickly and efficiently measure the effectiveness of cleaning practices and offer actionable data to alert staff of problem areas, evaluate cleaning methods, and set goals for improvement.
The high-level disinfection and sterilization that is required for reusable endoscopes, can be undermined by improper or ineffective cleaning, exposing patients to extreme risk of infection from poorly cleaned endoscopes.
Cleanspect™ can rapidly validate the effectiveness of the cleaning processes, detergents, and cleaning equipment, by detecting biological matter and bacteria left behind on surfaces after ineffective cleaning.
Cleanspect™’s Cleaning Verification system is an easy-to-use, affordable solution for verifying cleaning procedure effectiveness.
While the cleaning methods, sanitisers, and equipment used in healthcare facilities vary, the need to measure the effectiveness of cleaning practices is universal.
Environmental Services managers need quick and actionable data to measure the performance of cleaning staff to ensure that cleaning has been completed according to standards.
Cleanspect™ can be used as a complementary environmental cleanliness monitor, to troubleshoot problem areas in the hospital, evaluate cleaning methods and procedures, and set goals for improvements.
Improperly laundered healthcare textiles carry harmful pathogens that contribute to the spread of hospital-acquired infections and pose a risk to vulnerable patients, visitors, and healthcare workers.
Cleanspect™’s cleaning verification, healthcare laundry facilities can test surfaces and fabrics to ensure that their textiles are adequately cleaned and help fight the spread of deadly infections.
Infection control departments have significant responsibilities in ensuring that cleaning standards are maintained at the highest levels.
The coordination of the Infection Control Department with Environmental Services plays a crucial role in maintaining a clean hospital to prevent healthcare-acquired infections by ensuring that cleaning standards are upheld while keeping a tight budget.
Objective measurement of surface cleanliness using Cleanspect™ cleaning verification provides a rapid assessment of cleaning effectiveness and informs Infection Control managers to know how the cleaning staff is performing and quantify the standard of cleanliness in the healthcare environment. In addition, Cleanspect™’s cleanliness audits can be used to set goals for improvement and keep every member of the team cleaning to the same, measurable standard.
As Interventional Radiology continues to push the boundaries of medical innovation, infection control becomes more critical than ever. With Cleanspect™ leading the charge, Interventional Radiology suites can become safer, healthier environments for both patients and staff. So, let us embark on this journey together, armed with the knowledge that every surface, every touchpoint, can be cleansed of danger. Are you ready to embrace the future of infection control in Interventional Radiology?
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In the dynamic landscape of long-term care, innovation is paramount to ensuring the health and safety of residents. With Cleanspect™ leading the charge, long-term care centers can embrace the future of infection control with confidence. Are you ready to take the next step in safeguarding the well-being of your residents and staff?
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As healthcare OEM facilities continue their unwavering commitment to patient safety and infection control, innovative solutions like Cleanspect™ are indispensable assets. Are you prepared to elevate your infection prevention efforts and safeguard the well-being of your patients and staff?
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As technology continues to evolve, so too do our approaches to infection control in operating rooms. With Cleanspect™ leading the way, operating room staff can embrace the future of infection prevention with confidence. Are you ready to elevate your infection control practices and prioritize patient safety in your operating room?
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The cleanliness of reusable devices such as surgical tools is critical to infection prevention. The high-level disinfection and sterilization that is required for reusable surgical instruments, can be undermined by improper or ineffective cleaning, exposing patients to extreme risk of infection from poorly cleaned instruments.
Cleanspect™ can quickly validate the effectiveness of detergents, washers, and sterilizers by detecting biological matter and bacteria left behind after cleaning. In addition, it can detect residual protein residue.
Cleanspect™’s cleaning verification audits help to ensure that reusable instruments or tools are safe for use and the cleaning procedures are effective.
As the healthcare landscape continues to evolve, so too must our approach to infection control in Pharmacy Services. With Cleanspect™ leading the way, pharmacy professionals can embrace the future of infection prevention with certainty. Are you ready to elevate your infection control practices and safeguard patient well-being in your pharmacy?
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As Wound Care Facilities continue to prioritize patient safety and infection control, innovative solutions like Cleanspect™ are essential allies in the fight against HAIs. Are you ready to elevate your infection prevention efforts and ensure the well-being of your patients?
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Addressing the hidden threat of surface contamination in healthcare facilities is crucial for reducing HAIs. Cleanspect™‘s AI-powered multispectral fluorescence image-guided technology provides an effective solution for detecting and disinfecting bacteria, biofilm, and mold on various surfaces. By adopting advanced technologies and improving surface monitoring protocols in various departments and specialties, healthcare facilities can enhance patient safety and outcomes.
The Cleanspect™ Certified Clean program goes above and beyond the scientific knowledge that the healthcare industry uses to prevent contaminations and healthcare-associated infections.