Surgical Site Infections (SSI) remain the most stubborn kind of complication medical practitioners face. Yet there may be a solution to this ever-persisting problem.
Despite modern medical advancements, surgical sites and wound infections remain a major problem. Most disinfection procedures are done during and after the surgical process, yet doing so mid-operation is not always feasible.
The authors present UV-based “photonic” disinfection as a pathogen-agnostic, physics-based approach that could reduce microbial burden in real time, which they frame as increasingly important in the era of antimicrobial resistance.
The article says recent advances in emitters, dosimetry, and controls make direct tissue-use concepts more plausible than older environmental-only UV applications. In the authors’ research program, pulsed xenon performed especially well, reportedly achieving stronger local antimicrobial reduction than conventional pre-op antisepsis like chlorhexidine while showing no visible injury to surrounding healthy tissue in their pre-clinical work.
Read more about this feature article in UVSolution’s latest magazine here.
