Clinically Proven

Your 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene Reduce Infections at Dartmouth:

In their multidisciplinary (medical-surgical) ICU, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) provided Sprixx dispensers on a voluntary basis to nursing staff, physicians and respiratory therapists for a year reducing VAPs by 61% and CRBSIs by 50% enhancing bundles and checklists already in place, seamlessly!

In the Operating Room, DHMC increased anesthesia provider compliance 27-fold from baseline resulting in a significant reduction in both the anesthesia work area and peripheral intravenous tubing. Intravenous tubing contamination was identified in 32.8% of cases in the control group versus 7.5% in the Sprixx treatment (Sprixx) group. Infection rates were reduced in the Sprixx device group (3.8%) compared with (17.2%) in the control group.

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  1. Reduction in intraoperative bacterial contamination of peripheral intravenous tubing through the use of a novel device.pdf
  2. Reduction in ventilator associated pneumonia in a mixed intensive care unit after initiation of novel hand hygiene program.pdf
  3. Hand contamination of anesthesia providers.pdf
  4. Transmission of pathogenic bacterial organisms in the anesthesia work area.pdf
The Sprixx Hand Hygiene System proven at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is based on the the findings of Dr. Didier Pittet, etal Effectiveness of a hospital-wide programme to improve compliance with hand hygiene.  Compliance improved progressively from 48% in 1994, to 66% in 1997.  During the same period overall nosocomial infection decreased from 16.9% in 1994 to 9.9% in 1998.  Consumption of alcohol-based hand-rub solution increased from 3.5 to 15.4 L per 1000 patient-days between 1993 and 1998.

The promotion of bedside (clip-on personal bottles), antiseptic hand-rubs largely contributed to the increase in compliance.