Fighting bacteria with germ-killing metal surfaces

Can using self-disinfecting material on all surfaces help prevent contamination among patients and health care workers in hospital rooms? Researchers at VGH are hoping this may be the case as they survey a variety of measures to potentially reduce contamination and morbidity cases at hospitals in an exciting first-of-its-kind study.

Dr Elizabeth Bryce, Regional Medical Director for Infection Prevention and Control at VCH, Dr Raewyn Broady, Director of the Bone Marrow Transplant program, and Dr Linda Hoang, Medical Microbiologist at BC Centre for Disease Control Laboratory are leading the two-year pilot study. They were interviewed by the Vancouver Sun to comment on three specially outfitted VGH rooms that will test the impacts of self-disinfecting surfaces on bone marrow transplant patients and their nurses. Read the story here.