An emergency department physician assistant who created a portable disinfecting machine using UVC light during the pandemic is giving back to the hospital where…
Robert Thomann was working in the ER at Mount Sinai Hospital during the coronavirus pandemic when he decided to put his electrical engineering degree to useAn emergency department physician assistant who created a portable disinfecting machine using UVC light during the pandemic is giving back to the hospital where he came up with the idea.
“They can take these home and they can sanitize a room say after somebody comes to visit them,” Thomann said.“Anything that the light hits - say viruses or bacteria or any of these one-celled organisms - it breaks down the DNA or the RNA, making them unable to replicate – C. diff, candida auris, MRSA, E. coli, influenza – all of those,” Thomann said.It is technology that Anne Marie Herlehy, assistant chief nursing officer at Sinai Chicago, said the health care system had looked into.
Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weeklyThat’s why the safety net hospital was thrilled when Thomann donated one of this largest BrightBot machines to help Mount Sinai patient and staff. “This enhances the mechanical cleaning that we do when we turn over the rooms for procedures,” Herlehy said.
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