Inadequate disinfection of equipment is a major cause of preventable healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). According toCDE data, HAls are at staggering levels: 687,000 patients experience HAls every year, resulting in 72,000 deaths. Take stethoscopes as one example. A study showed that they're oftenloaded with bacteria that can cause deadly staph infections.
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Cleaning products putting patients at risk
Protecting your patients and staff from pathogens is mission-critical. While the innovation and advances in healthcare equipment and therapies have been staggering over the past 50 years, the technologies for cleaning products have remained trapped in time. Typical cleaning product chemicals still present major compromises when it comes to health, both chronic and acute risks. One example: a recent study showed that chronic exposure to typical cleaning products can be as dangerous for the respiratory system as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.
Quats and bleach: chronic and acute health risks
The most common disinfectants are quaternary ammonium (quats) and bleach, and both expose your patients and staff to unnecessary and significant health risks. Health risks associated with quats include asthma (even triggering it in those who have never had it), allergies, antimicrobial resistance, and even reproductive and developmental problems have been shown in animal studies. Similarly, bleach can trigger asthma and allergies as well as trigger asthma in those who have never had it, and its highly corrosive and caustic residues and fumes make it difficult to use safely in a practice where staff and patients might come into contact with it.
Pathogen protection without compromises
Force of Nature's antimicrobial ingredient is hypochlorous acid, which is so gentle it’s even used in wound healing, eye care, and veterinary care products. It has no harmful fumes or residues and requires no rinsing. It kills 99.9% of bacteria and viruses, even Staph, MRSA, Norovirus, Salmonella, Influenza A, Listeria and Pseudomonas. It’s EPA registered for sanitizing and disinfecting hospitals, ICUs, emergency rooms, medical and dental clinics, long-term care. facilities, and more. It can be used to clean, deodorize and disinfect just about all the hard surfaces you patients and staff come into contact with including those in waiting areas and offices, exam rooms, restrooms and breakrooms.
Safe on your equipment
Medical equipment is a major investment and chemicals in typical cleaning and disinfecting products like bleach can break down and corrode your equipment over time. Force of Nature is safe on virtually any surface without risk of damage or corrosion. With no harmful residues, you can use it to clean just about any surface in your practice including plastic, stainless steel, ceramic, enamel, glass, sealed stone, laminate, porcelain, tile, plastic, vinyl, rubber, chrome and more.