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Long-Term Care Professionals
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Long-Term Care Professionals
At PDI we know how important it is for you to ensure a clean and welcoming environment for your residents. That's why we're here to help. PDI offers clinically advanced, easy-to-use cleaning and disinfecting wipes that can help tackle surfaces and equipment in your facility and protect you, your staff and your residents from transmission of infection.
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Environment of Care
Clean and disinfect surfaces in every environment
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Interventional Care
Provide skin antisepsis, device disinfection, and nasal decolonization.
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Patient Care
Keep patients clean & comfortable with personal hygiene & cleansing products.
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UVC Disinfection
Tru-D delivers UVC light to inactivate microorganisms on nonporous surfaces.
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Admission Room
Infection Risk: Hands
The average person touches their face 23 times per hour, increasing the risk of infection1
Solution: Sani-Hands® Wipes
Instant, quick drying hand sanitizing wipes that leave no sticky residue.
Infection Risk: Phone
Cell phone screens can be 10X dirtier than a toilet seat.2
Solution: Easy Screen® Wipes
Cleaning Wipe for phone and screen cleaning.
Infection Risk: Surface
60% of samples collected from chair arms and environmental surfaces in LTC facilities tested positive for at least one MDRO.3
Solution: Super Sani-Cloth® Wipes
For daily use in fast-paced environments.
- Kwok, Y. L. A., Gralton, J., & McLaws, M. L. (2015). Face touching: A frequent habit that has implications for hand hygiene. American Journal of Infection Control, 43(2), 112–114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2014.10.015
- Gerba, C. P., et al. “Bacterial contamination of computer touch screens.” American Journal ofInfection Control 34.5 (2006): 335-337.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0196655306001714
- “Survival of Influenza Virus on Environmental Surfaces.” University of Arizona,https://publichealth.arizona.edu/news/2018/survival-influenza-virus-environmental-surfaces.Accessed 17 Mar. 2023.
Resident's Room
Infection Risk: Skin
24% of residents are colonized with MDROs, such as MRSA and VRE.1
Solution: Prevantics® Antiseptics
Skin antiseptics to help reduce microorganisms that can cause CLABSIs.
Infection Risk: Skin
24% of residents are colonized with MDROs, such as MRSA and VRE.1
Solution: Hygea® Wipes
Multi-purpose washcloths for cleaning and refreshing patients.
Infection Risk: Nose
30% of healthy individuals carry S. aureus in their nose.2
Solution: Profend® Nasal Swabs
For nasal decolonization to help defend against infections related to S. aureus and MRSA colonization.
Infection Risk: Whole Room
On Average, only 50% of high-touch surfaces in operating rooms are properly disinfected.3
Solution: Tru-D® Robot
The only “smart” UVC disinfection system that measures UVC dosing throughout a room.
Infection Risk: Hands
Poor access to hand hygiene products can increase the risk of SSI’s.4
Solution: Sani-Hands® Wipes
Instant, quick drying hand sanitizing wipes that leave no sticky residue.
Infection Risk: Surface
42% of call buttons, bathroom handrails, and bed rails tested positive for pathogenic bacteria.3
Solution: Super Sani-Cloth® Wipes
For daily use in fast-paced environments.
- Bradley, S. F., Terpenning, M. S., Ramsey, M. A., Zarins, L. T., Jorgensen, K. A., & Sottile, W. S. (1991). Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: colonization and infection in a long-term care facility. Annals of Internal Medicine, 115(6), 417-422. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-115-6-417
- Datta, R., Huang, S. S., Kleinman, K., Khan, Y., & Gombosev, A. (2010). Colonization with Staphylococcus aureus among residents of a long-term care facility: correlates of acquisition and infection. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 58(4), 697-703. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.02777.x
- Pires, D., Soule, H., Bellissimo-Rodrigues, F., Gayet-Ageron, A., Pittet, D., & Harbarth, S. (2016). Is it time to use environmental sampling for surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Hospital Infection, 92(2), 121-131. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2015.09.007
- Kampf, G., & Kramer, A. (2004). Epidemiologic Background of Hand Hygiene and Evaluation of the Most Important Agents for Scrubs and Rubs. Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 17(4), 863–893. https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.17.4.863-893.2004
- Independent data on file
Common / Activity Room
Infection Risk: Surface
43% of environmental surfaces areas are contaminated with bacteria.3
Solution: No-Rinse® Multi-Surface Sanitizing Wipes
For daily use in fast-paced environments.
Infection Risk: Phone
72% of mobile phones were contaminated with bacteria. 18% of those bacteria were MRSA.2
Solution: Easy Screen® Wipes
Cleaning wipe for phone and screen cleaning
Infection Risk: Hands
Hand hygiene is less likely to be performed in non-patient care areas.1
Solution: Sani-Hands® Wipes
Instant, quick drying hand sanitizing wipes that leave no sticky residue.
- Smith, G. N., & Edmond, M. B. (2013). A dental school outbreak of healthcare-associated hepatitis C virus infection. Journal of Dental Education, 77(8), 1014-1022. doi: 10.1002/j.0022-0337.2013.77.8.tb05749.
- Datta P, Rani H, Chandler J, Gupta V. Bacterial contamination of mobile phones of health care workers. Indian J Med Microbiol. 2009;27(3):279-281. [IB]
- Chang, E., Chenoweth, C., Cataldo, M., & Gilmartin, H. (2017). Skin colonization by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in long-term care facility residents. American Journal of Infection Control, 45(12), 1315-1317. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2017.06.027
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Common / Activity Room
Admission Room
Resident's Room
Common / Activity Room
- Kwok, Y. L. A., Gralton, J., & McLaws, M. L. (2015). Face touching: A frequent habit that has implications for hand hygiene. American Journal of Infection Control, 43(2), 112–114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2014.10.015
- Gerba, C. P., et al. “Bacterial contamination of computer touch screens.” American Journal ofInfection Control 34.5 (2006): 335-337.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0196655306001714
- “Survival of Influenza Virus on Environmental Surfaces.” University of Arizona,https://publichealth.arizona.edu/news/2018/survival-influenza-virus-environmental-surfaces.Accessed 17 Mar. 2023.
- Bradley, S. F., Terpenning, M. S., Ramsey, M. A., Zarins, L. T., Jorgensen, K. A., & Sottile, W. S. (1991). Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: colonization and infection in a long-term care facility. Annals of Internal Medicine, 115(6), 417-422. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-115-6-417
- Datta, R., Huang, S. S., Kleinman, K., Khan, Y., & Gombosev, A. (2010). Colonization with Staphylococcus aureus among residents of a long-term care facility: correlates of acquisition and infection. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 58(4), 697-703. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.02777.x
- Pires, D., Soule, H., Bellissimo-Rodrigues, F., Gayet-Ageron, A., Pittet, D., & Harbarth, S. (2016). Is it time to use environmental sampling for surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Hospital Infection, 92(2), 121-131. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2015.09.007
- Kampf, G., & Kramer, A. (2004). Epidemiologic Background of Hand Hygiene and Evaluation of the Most Important Agents for Scrubs and Rubs. Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 17(4), 863–893. https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.17.4.863-893.2004
- Independent data on file
- Smith, G. N., & Edmond, M. B. (2013). A dental school outbreak of healthcare-associated hepatitis C virus infection. Journal of Dental Education, 77(8), 1014-1022. doi: 10.1002/j.0022-0337.2013.77.8.tb05749.
- Datta P, Rani H, Chandler J, Gupta V. Bacterial contamination of mobile phones of health care workers. Indian J Med Microbiol. 2009;27(3):279-281. [IB]
- Chang, E., Chenoweth, C., Cataldo, M., & Gilmartin, H. (2017). Skin colonization by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in long-term care facility residents. American Journal of Infection Control, 45(12), 1315-1317. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2017.06.027
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