Clorox Healthcare offers three right answers for quick, effective surface disinfection
Your customers are on a mission: To provide high-quality medical care as efficiently as possible, and to keep patients and staff safe and free from harmful infections. Today, they are increasingly delivering that care in the physician office.
- Clorox Healthcare® VersaSure™ Cleaner Disinfectant Wipes are the newest addition to the Clorox Healthcare portfolio. Ideal for general patient care areas and waiting rooms, as well as for odor-sensitive staff, these non-bleach, alcohol-free wipes are Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) registered to kill 44 pathogens, including bacteria, viruses and fungi, in two minutes or less.
- Reformulated Clorox Healthcare® Hydrogen Peroxide Cleaner Disinfectants offer broad spectrum disinfection efficacy, but with improved compatibility with plastic surfaces and visibly less residue. Hydrogen peroxide disinfectant wipes and sprays are EPA-registered to kill over 40 microorganisms in as little as 30 seconds.. Their fast cleaning power makes them ideal for procedural areas.
- Clorox Healthcare® Fuzion™ Cleaner Disinfectant is the first product of its kind to combine trusted bleach efficacy against tough-to-kill pathogens with low odor and low residue profiles required for broad use throughout healthcare facilities. Fuzion is EPA-registered to kill Clostridium difficile ( difficile) spores in two minutes — the fastest kill time available (as of August 2018) – and 52 other pathogens in one minute. Fuzion can be used in conjunction with Clorox Healthcare® Bleach Germicidal Wipes and is ideal for high-risk areas including exam rooms where patients with gastrointestinal illness are seen, where the risk for C. difficile transmission can be higher.
“Clorox Healthcare understands that healthcare facilities have various infection control needs for different surfaces,” says Mike Harrington, Director of Sales-Clorox Non-Acute Healthcare. “We realize there is not a one-size-fits-all approach to selecting surface disinfectants for infection control.” That’s why Clorox Healthcare recommends the following tiered approach when walking customers through the disinfectant selection process:
- Bleach disinfectants: For high-risk areas or unknown infection control threats.
- Hydrogen peroxide disinfectants: For procedural areas, where there are more invasive procedures and more medical equipment.
- Alcohol-free quat disinfectants: For general patient care settings and waiting areas.
To help you and your customers make the right choice, refer to the Clorox Healthcare Compatible™ program. Clorox Healthcare continually works with medical equipment manufacturers to evaluate and test its disinfectants for compatibility on medical equipment and common surfaces. The results are easily viewed online.
To learn more about Clorox Healthcare innovations, including Clorox Healthcare Compatible™, contact a Clorox Healthcare regional sales manager or visit http://www.cloroxhealthcare.com.
[1] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ahcd/namcs_summary/2015_namcs_web_tables.pdf