Only clean or also disinfected?

Hands are the "main tools" in nursing care for the sick and the elderly. It is therefore all the more important and by no means a luxury to pay special attention to the cleansing, care and protection of the skin since irritated or even damaged skin cannot be disinfected.

If the hands cannot be used, the doctors or nurses cannot fulfill their tasks. For this reason, the employers' liability insurance association itself stipulates in its "Rules for Safety and Health in Disinfection Work within Health Service" the use of the mildest possible cleaning agents and the regular use of care products.

Experts all over the world recommend the disinfection of surfaces to minimize infection risks. Due to the increasing dilemma caused by pathogens resistant to antibiotics, the focus is now on the disinfection of surfaces within the vicinity of patients.

In this area special attention must be paid to the choice of active ingredients since the active ingredient is the chief determinant of exposure time and price. For surface disinfection, too, one should not take matters too lightly and react to the risks. Hence there is a need for an assortment of products in order to be able to respond to each situation in a safe and economically feasible manner.

Today instruments are normally cleaned and disinfected using chemo-thermal processes. But the often highly infectious instruments do not get into the washer by themselves: they have to be stored and transported by the medical staff.

And due to the nature of their material some instruments have to  be disinfected manually. Hence the medical and nursing staff is more threatened than the patients themselves and need reliable care. Antiseptica offers support with products showing broad and rapid action, while offering maximum consideration for staff and environment – all this at reasonable prices.