Hygiene in the hospital

Hygiene in the hospital

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The COVID-19 situation is currently developing dynamically and requires daily decisions and adjustments, including to our way of working.
We at Rein Medical have decided to move some of our employees to the home office, because the health of all employees and families is our top priority.
We are still available for you.
Our production is currently continuing, with increased hygiene and protective measures.
Because it is just as important to us to support and advise you in the health sector with regard to safety and hygiene and to continue to offer you the best possible solutions from our point of view.

Reduction of cross-contamination

Every year, 400,000 to 600,000 patients contract infections in hospital.
The treatment of such illnesses is becoming increasingly difficult and costly due to the increasing multi-resistance of pathogens.
In 1% of infected patients this leads to death, in 3-4% the nosocomial infection contributes significantly to the lethal outcome.

Investments to combat hospital infections pay off!

Hospital-acquired infections have become a well-known problem worldwide.
Their number is rising and the mostly bacterial pathogens are increasingly characterized by high resistance to antibiotics.
The probability of contracting such a nosocomial infection in a German acute-care hospital is 5.7% to 6.3%.

Hygiene and IT systems

It is not only computer keyboards and input devices such as PC mice that can pose a hygiene risk.
The systems and monitors are also hygienically relevant.
Conventional computers and monitors have fan systems in addition to gaps, cracks and open screw connections.
It has been shown that, in addition to dust, these also draw in microorganisms and accumulate inside the system.
Due to their special ability to survive for long periods on dry surfaces in a viable state, potent infectious agents can be enriched and released into the environment in large numbers.
If the environment is an operating theatre, an intensive care unit, an oncology ward or a sterilization department, this must be considered highly risky from an infectious disease perspective.
PC systems and monitors are therefore also classified as critical.
They must be easy to disinfect and should not be a “germ trap”.
This can be achieved by creating suitable surfaces and dispensing with fan systems.

The German Society for Hospital Hygiene estimates that almost one million people across Germany are infected with hospital germs every year.
It is estimated that up to 40,000 patients die as a result.