Prototype, 7-foot-tall sanitizer automates disinfection of hard-to-clean hospital equipment
July 30th, 2009
(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) Johns Hopkins experts in applied physics, computer engineering, infectious diseases, emergency medicine, microbiology, pathology and surgery have unveiled a 7-foot-tall, $10,000 shower-cubicle-shaped device that automatically sanitizes in 30 minutes all sorts of hard-to-clean equipment in the highly trafficked hospital emergency department. The novel device can sanitize and disinfect equipment of all shapes and sizes, from intravenous line poles and blood pressure cuffs, to pulse oximeter wires and electrocardiogram wires, to computer keyboards and cellphones.
