PuriflOH may be aiming its medical disinfection strategy at footwear crossing the doorways of every hospital.
Shoes carry bugs. Yet hospitals want to be bug-less.
Why? Because bacteria leads to HAI/Hospital Acquired Infection. HAI causes injury. And death.
While PuriflOH has announced plans to launch an FRG product to disinfect/sterilize hospital surfaces, it hasn’t detailed which surfaces it’s triaging.
Why not start at the entrance to every hospital?
In November 2016 the peer-reviewed journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology published a report on research that investigated hospital floors as a potential source of pathogen dissemination.
According to Cleanroom Technology, the research found that “100% of pathogens are transmitted from the floor”.
A clinical study carried out in 2017 confirmed over 77% of the soles of shoes walking into a hospital contained MRSA, C. difficile and other pathogens, CT says.
“The research also demonstrated a 99.59% reduction of MRSA and 97.5% of C. difficile after exposure to PathO3Gen in a period of four to eight seconds.”
PathO3Gen is a patented FFS/footwear sanitizing station. It's the first product commercialized by GEMS/Green Earth Medical Solutions, a medical device start-up based in St Petersburg, Florida.
PathO3Gen uses ozone and ultraviolet (UVC) light to kill pathogens on the soles of shoes.
"The ozone component breaks down the cell wall in seconds making it easier for the UVC to kill the pathogens," Robyn Collins, VP of Sales, told CT.
"By denaturing the cell, the DNA of the pathogens cannot replicate.”
Asher Gil, the Israeli aeronautical engineer who pioneered the UVC-ozone combination, tested the technology at the University of South Florida.
About three years ago, Gil sold out to his partners. They further developed the technology and ran clinical tests.
The product went to market in Q4/2018.
AdventHealth Connerton, formerly Florida Hospital, installed nine FFS throughout its facility in February.
AdventHealth is a client of $SYK/Stryker Corporation.
Stryker is believed to be playing a key role in helping PuriflOH’s apply its FRG/Free Radical Generator tech to medical facility surface disinfection and instrument sterilization.
The man leading the strategy is Jim Heath, former President of Stryker Instruments.
Heath seems set to explore the potential for PO3’s FRG to complement/supplant GEM’s initiative to de-contaminate shoe soles.
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