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Melt Your Job Stress Away - January 2014 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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Page 92 Ster Mist TM doesn't just disinfect... IT DECONTAMINATES! going to go looking for them. TOMI's™ SteraMist™uses patented ® to decontaminate rooms within high touch and delicate medical equipment. Disinfection = 99.99% Clean vs. Decontamination = 99.9999% CLEAN! What is SteraMistTM? Kills all known active viruses, mold, and bacterial spores achieving 99.9999% GREEN residue, and converts to water Decontaminates in minutes 6 Consider taking advantage of newer processes and technologies. There are surface disinfection systems that can be used as adjunct approaches to thorough cleaning — things like UV light and hydrogen peroxide fogging systems. Surfaces can also be coated with passive disinfecting materials like copper and silver. The challenge with these materials is that they can be expensive — with new construction, and especially if you're retrofitting. Still, these new technologies are getting a lot of attention, because they may hold considerable promise. 7 Composed of ingredients found Scan to see SteraMistTM in action! FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT WWW.TOMIESINC.COM 1.800.525.1698 You can't sanitize dirt. This is an extremely important principle. The first step in achieving disinfection or sterilization is always good old-fashioned elbow grease. You need friction to do the job right. Insufficient cleaning is the most common cause of failure. Passive disinfection with ultraviolet light disinfection systems can sterilize surfaces within the line of light delivery that you might have missed, but if the area isn't thoroughly cleaned first, it won't do you any good. One small study (tinyurl.com/ogrlox4) found that adding UV to the standard cleaning TM

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