Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
  • E03C—DOMESTIC PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS FOR FRESH WATER OR WASTE WATER; SINKS
  • E03C1/00—Domestic plumbing installations for fresh water or waste water; Sinks
  • E03C1/12—Plumbing installations for waste water; Basins or fountains connected thereto; Sinks
  • E03C1/14—Wash-basins connected to the waste-pipe
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
  • E03C—DOMESTIC PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS FOR FRESH WATER OR WASTE WATER; SINKS
  • E03C1/00—Domestic plumbing installations for fresh water or waste water; Sinks
  • E03C1/02—Plumbing installations for fresh water
  • E03C1/04—Water-basin installations specially adapted to wash-basins or baths
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
  • E03C—DOMESTIC PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS FOR FRESH WATER OR WASTE WATER; SINKS
  • E03C1/00—Domestic plumbing installations for fresh water or waste water; Sinks
  • E03C1/12—Plumbing installations for waste water; Basins or fountains connected thereto; Sinks
  • E03C1/126—Installations for disinfecting or deodorising waste-water plumbing installations
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
  • E03C—DOMESTIC PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS FOR FRESH WATER OR WASTE WATER; SINKS
  • E03C2201/00—Details, devices or methods not otherwise provided for
  • E03C2201/40—Arrangement of water treatment devices in domestic plumbing installations

Definitions

• the invention relates to a hygiene washing station.
• nosocomial infections are especially for patients with limited effective immune system is a life-threatening situation
• pathogenic and optionally pathogenic water germs such as Legionella and -Pseudomonas -., Aeinetobaeter - and Klebsiella aria, which are found in the washroom, facial area and bath or vagina, which are the causative agents of major nosocomial infections (eg, pneumonia, urinary tract infections).
• drinking water from the aqueduct can contain water germs
• the odor trap under the water - Aaffangbeeten ⁇ washbasin, shower tub, bath is a very large pathogen reservoir and ' infection potential. If tap water is used for nutritional purposes, the water germs contained therein pass about the intake of contaminated fluid into the patient's body,
• the self-disinfecting odor trap (US 6,666,966, EP 1 159 493) prevents the formation of this biofilm and kills water bacteria in the barrier liquid.
• Sissoko et al. (2005) Clinical investigations on the colonization of patients by water germs and the development of infections before and after the replacement of traditional odor traps by the self-disinfecting odor trap in an interdisciplinary intensive care unit.
• SISSOKO et.al., 2004 showed that elimination of the odor trap as a source of germs reduced the germination of patients with water germs as well as the occurrence of nosocomial infections, thus proving for the first time that the odor trap is not only a habitat of pathogenic water germs. but represents an active source of infection.
• the terminal sterile filtration in the necessary and useful practical application has a very high efficiency with respect to the separation of germs from contaminated drinking water.
• the number of nosocomial infections due to wetland germs remains unsatisfactorily high in clinical routine.
• One of the main reasons for this was the recent discovery that the removal and use of germ-free tap water from a properly functioning sterile filter takes place in an aerosol containing bacteria from the odor trap (SISSOKO, et al., 2004).
• a fine droplet mist (aerosol) is released from the barrier liquid inside the odor trap when the water drains into the odor trap, which contains the entire spectrum of water droplets contained in the barrier liquid.
• the aerosol may contain a multiple of the number of germs, which are retained by the filtration of the tap water. This is so dangerous because the user of the water removal device is unaware of this danger and thus imagines a security that de facto does not exist until the emission of germs from the odor trap is also off.
• the aerosol cloud from the odor trap not only reaches the hands of the nursing staff or the patient who are to be washed and disinfected in the basin, but also the outlet of the sterile filter. As a result, it is inoculated with water germs, which find there very good propagation conditions - the so-called retrograde contamination of the sterile filter begins.
• the presence and quantity of spray water and the aerosol resulting from the spray water when filling pools and baths and the use of shower trays differs significantly from the "normal" wash basin situation in the sense of a hand wash basin
• the proportion of spray water and the resulting aerosol formation is higher than
• the retrograde contamination of the outlet opening of the terminal sterile filter by splash water or contact can therefore not be switched off by the self-disinfecting odor trap, of course, in the relatively shallow hand washbasin Therefore, in situations in which spray water and spray aerosol formation are an important cause of retrograde contamination, by incorporating UV disinfection, maximum hygienic safety and safety can be achieved without any other equipment Validability created.
• the disinfection of the inner entrance area of the self-disinfecting odor trap by means of ultraviolet radiation is known (US Pat. No. 6,666,966 B1, EP 1 159 493 B1 and WO 00/53857).
• DE 92 02 902 U1 describes the use of thermal disinfection in backwater and germ killing by UV rays in the upper region of the backwater and located above the backwater inlet area of an odor trap.
• the sterilization of water flowing through a sanitary device by means of UV radiation is known (DE 198 03 071 A1).
• a shower device with a central disinfection unit into which UV light is introduced for disinfection into the water flowing through by means of a light guide is described in DE 197 01 847.
• the object of the invention is to provide a germ-free hygiene washing area. This object is achieved with the features of claim 1.
• the apparatus according to the invention referred to as a hygiene washing station, consists in its simplest embodiment of washing or shower basins or bathing or Gebärwannen (1) whose water inlets (2) with sterile filters (4) are provided for disinfecting tap water, and their water courses ( 3) are equipped with self-disinfecting odor trap (5).
• the hygiene washing station can additionally be equipped with one or more UV lamps (6) which emit ultraviolet light for surface disinfection of the outlet opening of the sterile filter (7) and the outer area of the inlet of the self-disinfecting odor trap (5) and for intensive disinfection of the basin. or tub surface.
• a device for the spatial separation of the wash station from the environment such as a removable or retractable Pool cover (8), ensures that no UV radiation can enter the environment.
• Both the sterile filter (4) and the self-disinfecting odor trap (5) are constantly in operation.
• the UV lamps (6). work only when the washing area is not in use, if necessary only with the pool cover closed (8).
• the simple embodiment of the invention consists of a sink (1), wherein the water inlet (2) with a sterile filter (4) and the. Water outlet (3) is equipped with a self-disinfecting odor trap (5). This embodiment is shown in Figure 1 (Fig.1).
• a further embodiment of the invention consists of a sink (1), in which the water inlet (2) with a sterile filter (4) and the water outlet (3) with a self-disinfecting odor trap (5) is equipped.
• a UV lamp (6) is mounted between sterile filter (4) and water outlet (3) that the interior of the washbasin (1), the outlet opening of the sterile filter (7) and the outer input area of the water outlet (3) are irradiated.
• This variant is particularly suitable for laboratories and rooms that are not used, for example, overnight, because with the operation of the UV lamp (6) takes place simultaneously a Kunststoffluftsterilisätion above the washbasin.
• This exemplary embodiment is shown in FIG. 2 (FIG. 2).
• a further embodiment of the invention consists of a sink (1), in which the water inlet (2) with a terminal sterile filter (4) and the water outlet (3) is equipped with a self-disinfecting odor trap (5).
• a UV lamp (6) is mounted between sterile filter (4) and water outlet (3) that the interior of the washbasin (1), the outlet opening of the sterile filter (7) and the outer input area of the water outlet (3) are irradiated. The UV radiation takes place only when the pool cover (8) is closed. If the sink is used, the pool cover (8) is removed. This embodiment is shown in Figure 3 ( Figure 3).
• the embodiment 4 relates to a shower cubicle (9) with shower tray (1), wherein the water inlet (2) with a terminal sterile filter (4) and the water outlet (3) is equipped with a self-disinfecting odor trap (5).
• the water inlet (2) is designed as a shower head (10) and provided with a sterile filter (4).
• a UV lamp (6) is mounted between sterile filter (4) and water drain (3) that the interior of the shower cubicle (9) and the outlet opening of the sterile filter (7) and the shower tray (1) with the water outlet (3) UV light are irradiated.
• the shower enclosure is provided with a partition (11), which is impermeable to UV radiation (eg shower curtain or mobile partition). This embodiment is shown in FIG. 4 (FIG. 4). List of pictures
• FIG. 1 A first figure.
• Hygiene washing station in simple design with sterile filter (4) and self-disinfecting odor trap (5)
• Hygiene washing station in the version with sterile filter (4), self-disinfecting odor trap (5) and UV lamp (6) and basin cover (8) in disinfection position.
• the pool cover (8) is closed, the UV lamp (6) is in operation.
• Hygiene washing station in the version with sterile filter (4), self-disinfecting odor trap (5) and UV lamp (6) and basin cover (8) in working position.
• the pool cover (8) is removed, the UV lamp (6) is out of order and out of the working area.
• Hygienic washing area as a shower cubicle (9) with a shower basin (1), in which the water inlet (2) is equipped with a terminal sterile filter (4) and the water outlet (3) with a self - disinfecting odor trap (5).
• the sterile filter (4) is designed in this case as a shower head.
• a UV lamp (6) is mounted between sterile filter (4) and water drain (3) that the interior of the shower cubicle (9) and the outlet opening of the sterile filter (7) and the shower tray (1) with the water outlet (3) UV light are irradiated.
• the shower enclosure is provided with a UV ray impermeable partition (11) (e.g., shower curtain or mobile divider).

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