This is the first of a blog series by Alice Brewer, Clinical Affairs Director for Tru-D SmartUVC. If your facility is considering adding UVC disinfection to your cleaning protocols, the product should help complement your existing process and not make it more difficult. Just like every hospital room is different,

  As a supplement to the latest issue of the American Journal of Infection Control and on the heels of the 2019 APIC conference, Drs. Rutala and Weber stressed that “…hospitals should use a ‘no touch’ device for terminal room decontamination after discharge of patients on contact precautions.” They went

Tru-D recently hosted a webinar featuring St. Joseph’s Children’s hospital, which is a part of the BayCare Health System in Florida. During the webinar, Suzanne Chandler, RN-BC, MSN, Director of Infection Prevention & Control for Baycare Health System which includes St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital, spoke about the system’s adoption of

Tru-D SmartUVC, a leader in the UVC disinfection industry, will attend and exhibit at APIC 2019 June 12-14 in Philadelphia, PA, sharing the latest on its innovative UVC technology. Tru-D has been shown by multiple studies, including the only randomized clinical trial on UVC disinfection, to reduce the relative risk of

The history of studying UVC as a way to kill bacteria and other organisms dates back to as early as 1845, when it became known that microorganisms respond to light. However, it was in 1877, when Downes and Blunt observed that exposing test tubes containing Pasteur’s solution to sunlight prevented