germ-zapping robots

[Mulan]

This looks pretty interesting. Anyone have these where they work?

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20140816/NEWS12/140819256

"MANCHESTER-Aurora, Twilight and Violet are the latest weapons in the germ-killing orificenal at Elliot Hospital.

Despite their pleasant names, the three germ disinfection robots are killers. They zap germs with ultra-violet light pulses, which disrupt the DNA of a single cell germ and destroy it so it can't reproduce and spread."

[Swellz]

We just got them. For enteric rooms, the janitors clean the room first and then it is blocked for the machine to clean. It takes forever but hey if it works, whatever. Too soon for data on it though.

[NicuGal, MSN, RN]

We use the bots on any room that has been isolated.

[pockunit, ADN, RN]

We only use them on iso rooms. One is broken, one is on order, and one is functional. If the prices come down, maybe we'll end up with enough to do all the rooms, but at this point they're something like $100K a piece. Probably not going to be facility-wide at that price.

They do look like R2D2, though, which slays me.

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

Used in our ORs at the end of the day, in critical care rooms after a patient is transferred, and in isolation rooms. At least in the ORs, we've done some sort of test that does microbe counting pretty quickly; the results do show less after standard cleaning followed by zapping.