Project description
Anti-bacterial coating for hospital sheets
Nosocomial infections, infections that originate in a hospital, represent a major concern for health institutions, affecting 5 million people and resulting in the death of 50 000 each year in Europe alone. This has enormous health, social and economic dimensions as infections prolong hospitalisation duration. It has been found that several types of textiles used in hospitals are mainly responsible for the spread of nosocomial infections. The EU-funded Healthy Textile project proposes an antibacterial coating for medical textiles. The product, which is based on nanotechnology, eliminates bacteria and viruses and prevents the spread of infectious diseases that threaten the health of patients and medical personnel.
Objective
The World Health Organisation has identified that there are many textiles items used in hospitals being the main cause for Nosocomial infections (Hospital Acquired Infections-HAI). Nosocomial infections are one of a major global health concern being related with hospitals’ used textiles to be one of its primary causes. Nosocomial infections can result in prolonged hospital stays, long-term disability, and increased resistance of microorganisms to antimicrobials, therefore it presents massive additional costs for health systems, high costs for patients and their family, and unnecessary deaths. In Europe alone every year about 5 million patients suffer from a Nosocomial infection out of which about 50,000 people may die, causing an annual financial burden of €7 Billion in direct costs.
Healthy-Textile is a breakthrough powerful and permanent Zinc-oxide Antibacterial coating for Textiles based on the physical phenomena “Cavitation” - a High velocity implosion of voids/bubbles inside of a liquid solution, resulting in powerful micro jet-streams of over 500 meters/second which are impregnating the required chemistry molecules onto Textile fibers (“Sono-Coating”).
Nano Textile’s technology is considered to be a game changer in the sense that for the first time in the world (patented), there is an effective Antibacterial coating for all Medical Textiles which is durable for Industrial washings, cost effective, and applicable to all Textile types. Healthy-Textile will prevent the spread of infectious diseases by eliminating bacteria, viruses and fungus, and even antibiotics resistant bacteria, and can transform any fabric into a protective shield against HAI for the patient. The patented technology permanently prevents the growth of bacteria on both natural and synthetic fabrics, prevent the spread of HAI and can reduce cross contamination between patients and medical staff.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology bacteriology
- medical and health sciences health sciences infectious diseases
- engineering and technology materials engineering textiles
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy pharmaceutical drugs antibiotics
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy drug resistance antibiotic resistance
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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5268101 Ramat Gan
Israel
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