Study: Copper hospital beds can kill bacteria

Copper beds in the ICU harbored an average of 95 percent fewer bacteria than conventional hospital beds


Copper beds in the ICU harbored an average of 95 percent fewer bacteria than conventional hospital beds, according to an article on the SciTech Daily website.

The research was published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

Hospital beds are among the most contaminated surfaces in patient care settings. 

“Despite the best efforts by environmental services workers, they are neither cleaned often enough, nor well enough,” according to the study's author.

Read the article.



November 18, 2019


Topic Area: Infection Control

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