PullClean: Door handles as sanitizers
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PullClean: Door handles as sanitizers
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Re: PullClean: Door handles as sanitizers
#2I am curious how this compares to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_copper-alloy_touc...
These surfaces have good properties and don't encourage any sort of resistances.
edit: I see Pull Clean is trying to get people to clean their hands more, but I also think it is not good to ignore an existing good strategy for eliminating germs in one of the dirtiest places (door handles) in a hospital. I am wondering how well studied this is and if it results in a cleaner environment in a hospital setting compared to installing the copper surface handles everywhere.
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#3Stinks, they will only let me buy a max of 10. I wanted 100... guess I'll have to look for something else.
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#4I am curious how this compares to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_copper-alloy_touc... These surfaces have good properties and don't encourage any sort of resistances. edit: I see Pull Clean is trying to get people to clean their hands more, but I also think it is not good to ignore an existing good strategy for eliminating germs in one of the dirtiest places (door handles) in a hospital. I am wondering h…
I came to mention something similar I read many years back about copper, but it was funded by the "copper industry" and the article is on the Daily Mail from 2008.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1081359/Copper-doo...
Alternatively I found another article sighting a study that says brass is good from 2012.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9762689/Fit-bra...
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#5I didn't realize that I had to manually page through the slides at the top to understand the product. I scrolled down and had no idea what the product was. Might want to put that first instead of hidden on slide 4.
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#6Last time I visited a hospital, there were gel dispensers beside every single door, already. I googled and those are under $10 for twice the capacity of the PullClean... so 1 PullClean vs 20 wall-mounted dispensers?
I think they'd really have to have some studies showing the different placement really made an impact for hospitals to buy this at scale.
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#7I am curious how this compares to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_copper-alloy_touc... These surfaces have good properties and don't encourage any sort of resistances. edit: I see Pull Clean is trying to get people to clean their hands more, but I also think it is not good to ignore an existing good strategy for eliminating germs in one of the dirtiest places (door handles) in a hospital. I am wondering h…
I came to mention something similar I read many years back about copper, but it was funded by the "copper industry" and the article is on the Daily Mail from 2008. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1081359/Copper-doo... Alternatively I found another article sighting a study that says brass is good from 2012. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9762689/Fit-bra...
Now that I think about it... I wonder if you could combine pull clean with copper/antimicrobial surfaces.
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#8Here's a report[0] given to the Sheffield Trust Executive Group talking about cystic fibrosis, one of the recommendations they made included:
"... bactericidal copper touch plates on doors and handles... "
For much the same reasons as other commenters have pointed out, they have excellent antimicrobial properties. I'm moving into a new build at the moment, and we're using copper for the very same reasons. Being quadriplegic, infections are an absolute nightmare to get rid of so these things are going to be invaluable.
[0]:http://www.sth.nhs.uk/clientfiles/File/Enclosure%20I%20-%20C...
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#9What about my carefully cultivated habit of not touching the door? If I change habits and start touching doors someday I'll mistakenly touch the wrong door. If I mistakenly touch the wrong door I'll start spreading The Disease.
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#10I might be an idiot but... how about automatic doors? (that you don't have to touch)
You want some WiFi app thingie? Ok, link the automatic doors to the nearest gel dispenser and when the ratio of door opening/dispenser use gets too low, the door only opens after the dispenser has been used.