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fter they've hit the OR surfaces with
liquid disinfectants and elbow grease,
they wheel in the heavy-duty artillery to put the finishing touch-
es on the terminal clean at St. Charles Bend (Ore.) Medical
Center: a disinfection robot that bathes the ORs in UV light. The
ultraviolet light kills the microbes hardy enough to survive manual terminal
cleaning — and hits the hard-to-reach nooks and crannies that the cleaning
Bill Donahue
Senior Editor
Whole-room disinfection solutions and fine-tuned manual
scrubbing will eradicate infection-causing microorganisms.
• LIGHT WORK Whole-room disinfection robots cover surface areas that sprays and wipes might have missed during manual cleaning.
Joel
Rahmatulla
Souped-Up
Surface Cleaning
