Journal of Petroleum & Environmental Biotechnology

Modern Technologies for Enhancing Cleaning and Disinfection in Health Care Organizations

Kang Lee^* Department of Environment Science, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
^*Correspondence: Kang Lee, Department of Environment Science, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea, Email:

Received: 04-Oct-2022, Manuscript No. JPEB-22-18694; Editor assigned: 07-Oct-2022, Pre QC No. JPEB-22-18694 (PQ) ; Reviewed: 21-Oct-2022, QC No. JPEB-22-18694; Revised: 28-Oct-2022, Manuscript No. JPEB-22-18694 (R); Published: 04-Nov-2022, DOI: 10.4172/2157-7463.22.13.486

Description

The burden that healthcare organizations continue to bear due to healthcare-associated infections is exacerbated by an aesthetic and intensive care practice. It is crucial to understand and be knowledgeable about transmission mitigation strategies in order to decrease the damage. To make reusable medical devices safe for reuse, they must be cleaned, disinfected, or sterilized. This procedure is known as decontamination. Cleaning is the act of physically removing foreign material from a thing. Disinfection just gets rid of the majority of live germs; sterilization gets rid of all of them. Disposable, single-use medical supplies are sterilized during production, which eliminates the need for extra decontamination.

Methods for regulating and disinfecting

Numerous studies have been performed on sterilization and disinfection of pollutants and microorganisms in order to address environmental contamination, a crucial issue for public health and economics. Hazardous substances and contaminants that are released into the environment and enter the human body through inhalation, adsorption, or ingestion include microorganisms and dangerous gases. Human death rates are raised by a number of respiratory ailments, strokes, lung cancers, and cardiac diseases associated to these pollutants. Therefore, it is crucial to reduce environmental contamination by using efficient, life-saving sterilization and disinfection techniques. For disinfection and sterilization, a variety of traditional physical and chemical techniques are used. These techniques include dry and wet heat, radiation, filtration, ethylene oxide, ozone, hydrogen peroxide, and others. We summarized both contemporary and historical approaches to sterilization and disinfection in this paper, along with their desired effects and practical uses. In this study, the relative benefits and drawbacks of the two methods are explored.

Joint sterilization and disinfection technologies have emerged as a more effective invention for preserving both indoor and outdoor settings, despite the effective answer offered by modern sterilization and disinfection technology. Decellularization is the removal of the cellular components from organs or tissue to produce an extracellular matrix, a structural template that can be applied in tissue engineering. The cells can be decellularized using chemical, enzymatic, physical, or a combination of these techniques. A medical gadget must be sterile and hemocompatible before it can come into contact with blood. Some of the numerous sterilizing techniques include gamma radiation, freeze-drying, ethylene oxide, peracetic acid, antibiotics, and ethanol. The decellularization, sterilization, and hemo compatibility of xenogeneic pericardium for tissue engineering applications are the three main topics of this study. The most modern decellularization techniques, including the chemical approach, the chemical and enzymatic method, and the physical and chemical method, are briefly reviewed in this paper. On pericardium scaffolds, the effectiveness of the various sterilization techniques and the post-sterilization findings from various research groups are discussed. The in vitro hem compatibility testing for xenogeneic biomaterials are also included in this study, including tests for hemolysis, platelet adhesion, the coagulation system, and leucocyte activation.

Ultrasonic dispersion and basic hydrothermal oxidation

The recent development of photo catalytic sterilization as a practical choice for effective sunlight-based water purification is made possible in large part by the novel photo catalytic materials. Through straightforward hydrothermal oxidation and ultrasonic dispersion, TiO₂ nanoparticles and Bi₂S₃ microspheres were uniformly distributed over the Nano sheets, creating the innovative Z-scheme hetero junction material that was suggested in this study. This Z-scheme hetero junction allowed efficient and rapid sterilization of both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria in under 120 minutes. The apparent reaction constant of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) in a particular 0.01659 min^-1, which is much greater than other materials in this field. The composite's low impedance, broad light absorption spectrum, and narrow band gap made it easier to transfer and separate photo-generated charges, which was supported by the first-order kinetic model and Density Functional Theory (DFT) simulation calculations. The reactive species generated by light catalysis significantly undermined the bacterial defences by lowering enzyme activity and cellular metabolism while also causing structural damage to the bacterial membrane.

Potential developments for the economical and efficient water disinfection material are numerous. A few of the new fields additive manufacturing technologies have found themselves in include the constantly developing applications and areas of medical research that demand high accuracy, very exact repeatability, disinfection, or even sterility of the end product. The goal of this study is to conduct a critical analysis of how the most popular additive manufacturing processes and materials extrusion technology using Polylactic Acid (PLA), Polyethylene Terephthalate (PETG), and Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) for powder bed fusion technology, standard Form labs white resin for Service-Level Agreement (SLA) technology, and selective laser sintering are sterilized and disinfected during the development of medical devices. Tests were conducted on the materials before and after a variety of sterilization and disinfection processes, including treatment with 70% ethanol, chlorine solution, H₂O₂ plasma sterilization, autoclave sterilization, and dry heat sterilization.