Enhanced Hospital Cleaning
In a high traffic environment with thousands of shared touchpoints, it is crucial to guard against pathogens. With Allied BioServices’ SW2 infection control system, hospitals have never been so hygienic. Supported by multiple highly successful clinical trials, our long-lasting antimicrobial coating is clinically proven to reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAI) by 36%.
Utilising the latest infection control technologies, SW2 forms an antimicrobial barrier across all applied surfaces. Thanks to this breakthrough protective shield, there’s no better option for prioritising patient care and reducing the associated costs of healthcare-associated infections. Making surfaces biological clean, rather than merely visually clean and seamlessly integrates into your discharge cleaning process.
The importance of healthcare-associated infection control
What makes Allied BioServices the best choice for hospital cleaning is that we take an innovative, science-led approach to everything we do. This ensures that your facility remains biologically cleaned for the long-term.
The key to Allied BioServices’ superior infection control services is that, after deep cleaning, our technicians apply SW2 to all surfaces to keep your surfaces protected for the next three months.
SW2 is a long-lasting antimicrobial coating that forms a protective barrier on hard and soft surfaces, which makes them hostile to germs for up to 3 months. This means that you can go back to normal cleaning practices and provide your employees and patients a safer space whilst saving your hospital time and money.
Choose a high-performing, long-lasting infection control service that will give you enhanced protection against healthcare-associated infections for months.
SW2 is suitable to use on most common surfaces:
What is a healthcare-associated infection, you might ask? Also called a healthcare-associated infection, it occurs when patients encounter bacteria, germs, and other pathogens during their treatment at a hospital. Examples of healthcare-associated infections include bloodstream, urinary tract and surgical site infections, healthcare-associated pneumonia, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and clostridium difficile infections.
At all times, but particularly in a post-COVID world, healthcare providers must be proactive in suppressing bioburdens, including bacteria, viruses, pathogens, and COVID-19, to mitigate the risk of healthcare-associated infections.
In a new ARIC journal published by Monash University, the authors estimated that 170,574 HAIs occur in adults admitted to public hospitals in Australia annually, resulting in 7,583 deaths, calling out that Healthcare associated infections are of significant burden in Australia. This would mean HAIs are the 5th highest cause of death in Australia – more than heart attacks and 5 times more than Motor Vehicle accidents.
According to AIHW, over the past 5 years hand hygiene compliance has been consistently improving, yet average HAI SABSI rates are still fluctuating between 0.74–0.71 cases per 10,000 patient days. Could environmental contamination of surfaces be a contributing factor?
There is now substantial data that shows up to 40% of HAIs are transferred via contaminated surfaces (fomite). The analysis of 177 medical journals found that several major pathogens are shed by patients and contaminate hospital surfaces at concentrations sufficient for transmission, survive for extended periods, persist despite attempts to disinfect them (because short-acting disinfectants cannot be left on the surface long enough) and can be transferred to the hands of healthcare workers.
The report found that evidence is accumulating that contaminated surfaces make an important contribution to the epidemic and endemic transmission of C. difficile, vancomycin-resistant enterococci, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and norovirus and that improved environmental decontamination can contribute to the control of outbreaks.
With increased healthcare fees for patients, hospitals and governments, extended hospital stays, potential re-admission, and in a worst-case scenario, death, the cost of healthcare-associated infections can’t be understated. Inadequate hospital cleaning and ineffective disinfectant products can lead to real ramifications for a hospital’s service delivery and patient care.
Proven results
The prevention of healthcare-associated infections should be front and centre when it comes to safeguarding the health and welfare of your patients, employees, and other stakeholders. While many disinfecting products kill pathogens, surfaces are re-contaminated within minutes. With the specialised application of a long-lasting antimicrobial decontaminate like Allied BioServices’ SW2 infection control system, you can ensure a more hygienic hospital, reducing the transmission risk of healthcare-associated infections from surfaces.
Our long-lasting surface coating provides a continuous antimicrobial action. In a study in the American Journal of Infection Control, a single application reduced the average bacterial count across all treated surfaces by more than 99% for two months and was still delivering a 98.5% hygiene improvement after 15 weeks.
In another study, published in the Clinical Infectious Diseases Journal, treated hospital units experienced a 36% decline in healthcare-associated infections caused by antibiotic-resistant viruses, while the control group had no change, further demonstrating the effectiveness of SW2™ on hospital cleaning and infection control.
Next-generation healthcare-associated infection control
SW2 protects like nothing on the market. Unlike regular hospital cleaning products, that need to be left wet on a surface for 5 to 10 minutes to be effective and even then, only provide momentary protection, a single application of SW2 offers antimicrobial action that lasts up to 3 months. With only four treatments needed per annum, you can shield your patients from surface transmission of healthcare-associated infections for months, not minutes.
From air conditioning systems to reception counters, bed rails to door handles, computers to patient monitors, SW2 is a hard-wearing protective polymer bonding to surfaces and equipment and doesn’t come off even with regular cleaning. This antimicrobial coating creates a hostile environment to reduce the incidence of healthcare-associated infections.
SW2 is a vital proactive tool for healthcare professionals to facilitate enhanced hygiene and guard against healthcare-associated infections 24 hours a day. With a non-toxic formula, SW2 is safe to use in any ward or healthcare setting. It won’t release harsh chemical fumes and is completely odourless. The spray is non-corrosive so that it won’t erode or tarnish delicate surfaces like mobile tablet devices and medical equipment.
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If you need more information or have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us find out how we can help you enhance your hospital’s infection control outcomes.