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Mold deaths in OR's result in HEPA filtration at Seattle hospital
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It uses a specific frequency of UV. They were using an Ximer light source with the appropriate filters on the glass. Eximer lamps are expensive, bulky, relatively fragile, wear out, and use a lot of power and generate a lot of heat.
They changed frequencies a couple of times. Things seem to have settled on 222 nm. But I am not positive of what frequency won. I believe they are also working with a company to make a suitable solid state radiation source. That would be the best approach if it works out. Lower power requirements, light weight, easily portable.
What does it do. The radiation is harmless to humans. You can shine it into your eyes, your skin, your guts hanging out during surgery. It kills pretty much all of the harmful critters. I believe fungus is one of those critters.
Applications:
Testing was made in a normal OR plenum. I believe they got > 20% improvement in sterilization. Brought contaminates down to almost zero.
Advantages:
Clean room air.
Emitters at the surgery site. Including tools and materials brought into the OR. Including clothing and breathing.
Patient protection for most contaminant sources. Food delivery, nurses running in and out with non-sterile equipment, doctors looking in, cleaning people, other instruments and materials in the room.
OR's and hospitals need this. High priority. Then households, food preparation and processing (all those "safe" foods become actually safe). Public spaces (airplanes, buses, taxis, Grand Central Station, etc.). Here there is a different cost of use. The OR needs it: period. The rest have a more complicated application. Power, cost, extended radiation profile.
If you are curious, you might want to poke around and see what this could mean. It could become a revolution in medical processes; and the rest of the outside.
And no; I have no relation to these guys. Except for wanting the technology for a forcasted "remove all of you internal organs, carve new surfaces, spruce up the organs, carve away adhesions, and put them back" and hope that the current materials (best material from Europe (you know those backwards bastards) blocked by FDA when I looked) for defeating adhesion are adequate. Or, as the surgeon pointed out, die. I would really like to see this technology available when I need it. Which draws closer faster than this technology is likely to help me.