Evaluation of an alcohol-based power sanitizing system for decontamination of hospital rooms of patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage

• Published in: American journal of infection control Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 234 - 236
• Main Authors: Jury, Lucy A., RN, Cadnum, Jennifer L., BS, Jennings-Sanders, Andrea, RN, PhD, Eckstein, Elizabeth C., RN, Chang, Shelley, BS, Donskey, Curtis J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Mosby, Inc 01.04.2010; Elsevier
• Subjects: Alcohols - pharmacology; Bacterial diseases; Bacterial diseases of the digestive system and abdomen; Biological and medical sciences; Clostridium difficile; Colony Count, Microbial; decontamination; Decontamination - methods; Disinfectants - chemistry; Disinfectants - pharmacology; Disinfection - methods; Enterococcus - drug effects; Enterococcus - isolation & purification; Environment; Environmental Microbiology; Epidemiology. Vaccinations; General aspects; Hospitals; Housekeeping, Hospital - methods; Human bacterial diseases; Humans; Infection Control; Infectious Disease; Infectious diseases; Medical sciences; methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus - drug effects; Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus - isolation & purification; Patients' Rooms; Staphylococcal Infections - microbiology; Staphylococcal infections, streptococcal infections, pneumococcal infections; vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus; Environment; methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; decontamination; Clostridium difficile; vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus; Clostridiales; Check; Prevention; Decontamination; Bacteria; Micrococcales; Intestinal disease; Micrococcaceae; Hospital; Alcoholic solution; Staphylococcus aureus; Enterococcus; Human; Diarrhea; Infection; Streptococcaceae; Clostridiaceae; Bacteriosis; Digestive diseases; Staphylococcal infection; Colonization
• ISSN: 0196-6553; 1527-3296
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2009.09.011

A power sanitizing system that delivers a sanitizing mist of alcohol, rendered nonflammable by a carbon dioxide carrier, and a low concentration of quaternary ammonium compound, was easy to use, provided thorough coverage of surfaces, and significantly reduced vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus contamination on commonly touched hospital surfaces. However, it was not as consistently effective for elimination of pathogens as 10% bleach solution.