Xenex recently completed a fully-integrated trial of the Xenex system in a large hospital facility, which involved both operational testing and collection of environmental data. In the study, we collected samples surface contamination on high-touch surfaces before the hospital’s standard cleaning procedure, after standard cleaning, and then again after treatment of the room with the Xenex UV system. Our results showed a statistically significant improvement in the decontamination of the environmental surfaces in patient rooms following Xenex when compared to standard cleaning practices.
An independent lab also confirmed the elimination of all epidemiologically significant organisms (superbugs) after Xenex treatment, but not after standard cleaning.
The operational side of the study proved the ease of integrating Xenex into a healthcare facility which, as was the case in this trial, is over capacity and under extreme time pressure. The study showed that (once swabbing and other testing procedures are removed) Xenex can provide high-level disinfection in the terminal cleaning of patient rooms while adding only 8 minutes to room turnover time.
Full results of this latest Xenex hospital study are expected to be released shortly.