SOTERIA® NEONATAL MATTRESS BARRIER REPROCESSING SERVICE
The Soteria® Neonatal Mattress Barrier is more than a hospital mattress cover. It is the first and only protective microbiological barrier for neonatal care to help hospitals protect the equipment used for vulnerable newborns and babies:
- from patient fluids and contaminants,
- from contaminants that can cause infection, and
- from harsh chemicals that can harm fragile skin and pose an added respiratory risk.
The Soteria Neonatal Bed Barrier also provides a protective physical barrier to protect the mattress in warmers and NICU incubators from patient soiling. Launderable and reusable, it meets the endpoints defined by AMII TIR12 for high-level disinfection, washing away > 99.9999% bacteria including spores, and has been integrated as a MIFU reprocessing option in a major manufacturer’s IFU (Instructions for Use).
This barrier cleaning service is integrated as part of this neonatal protection solution – to maximize ease of compliance, staff convenience, and infant protection.
Soteria takes the challenging steps in mattress reprocessing out of your facility... and puts it into ours. With the Soteria Neonatal Mattress Barrier, you get not just a unique product but a service for laundering as well.
What Makes Soteria Unique?
Proven Process
Preserves facility resources.
Following manufacturer’s instructions for use for bed and mattress reprocessing is required – and it can take a toll on your staff and your mattresses. Soteria significantly simplifies cleaning of hospital warmer and incubator mattresses. For our Neonatal Mattress Barriers, we actually take the challenging steps in mattress reprocessing out of your facility and into ours. It’s a process of Collect/Effect/Inspect/Direct/Protect.
You collect soiled Soteria Neonatal Mattress Barriers in a laundry bin provided specifically for that purpose and ship them to us. We effectively launder, inspect for material integrity with a light table in a clean room, individually pack and then ship the validated barrier directly back to your facility for you to use to protect patients and mattresses. Each barrier is tracked using state-of-the-art RFID technology to provide detailed usage reporting.
The One & Only
The only Neonatal Mattress Barrier recognized in MIFUs.
Uniquely, the Soteria Neonatal Mattress Barrier is actually presented as an option in the MIFUs of the leading manufacturer of neonatal warmers and incubators. While it is as easy to put on as a hospital mattress cover, it is actually classified as a microbiological barrier.
Unique Protection
Advanced materials and a proprietary laundry process provide protection.
Soteria uses advanced materials and a proprietary laundry process to bolster efficiencies in mattress reprocessing. This extends the realizable lifespan of mattresses which can break down if MIFU guidelines are not followed and the appropriate cleaning solutions/disinfectants are not used. It is more than a hospital mattress cover; it actually qualifies as a Level 4 barrier, like surgical gowns and drapes, per AAMI Standard PB 70.
It removes > 99.9999% of pathogens and spores, exceeding FDA Reprocessing Requirements.
For more information on our solution: Contact John McLaughlin at jmclaughlin@trinityguardion.com or call 812-932-2600.
For more product information, go to Soteria Bed Barriers.
Soteria® Neonatal Mattress Barriers are available for most major brands and ALL GE HealthCare neonatal warmers and incubators...including Panda® Warmers & NICU incubators.
Giraffe® Warmer
Giraffe® Incubator Carestation®
Giraffe® OmniBed® Carestation®
Panda® iRes Warmer
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CLEANING VALIDATION
Soteria is designed to withstand the mechanical action of commercial washer/extractors as well as high heat and chlorine. The robust laundry process removes > 99.9999% of test organisms including C. diff. as well as removing residual protein and hemoglobin, exceeding FDA Reprocessing Requirements. After the laundry wash cycle, Soteria is rinsed with a neutralizing additive before final extraction bringing the barrier to a pH neutral condition and then dried at 160 degrees. After each laundering, the barrier is inspected on a light table, then individually wrapped before returning to the facility. Soteria’s laundry process removes stains (including blood and betadine) and leaves the barrier smelling fresh and clean.
