{"id":2581,"date":"2016-02-09T00:33:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T00:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rttheme20.rtthemes.com\/?page_id=2581"},"modified":"2021-04-14T10:34:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T07:34:48","slug":"abous-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/halco.gr\/el\/abous-us\/","title":{"rendered":"\u03a3\u03c7\u03b5\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ac \u03bc\u03b5 \u03c4\u03bf\u03bd \u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b9\u03bc\u03b9\u03ba\u03c1\u03bf\u03b2\u03b9\u03b1\u03ba\u03cc \u03c7\u03b1\u03bb\u03ba\u03cc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2928 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/halco.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/industry-business-production-heavy-metallurgical-industrial-products-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halco.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/industry-business-production-heavy-metallurgical-industrial-products-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halco.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/industry-business-production-heavy-metallurgical-industrial-products-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/halco.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/industry-business-production-heavy-metallurgical-industrial-products.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #993300;\">\u2014<\/span>History of antimicrobial copper<\/h3>\n<p>That copper has beneficial effects in humans throughout history which is true for at least 4,000 years. In ancient Egypt, copper was used to create drinking water containers and to apply powdered metal to wounds for disinfection. The Aztecs used copper to treat skin diseases. Also, Hippocrates, the father of medicine (460 \u2013 380 B.C.E) recommended the use of copper for sore legs related to enlarged veins. Additionally, in France, during the three cholera epidemics around 1850, the disease did not affect workers in copper foundries.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, in 1970 the American College of Chest Physicians published on the \u2018Antibacterial action of copper\u2019. They showed that by using copper in large reservoir nebulizers applied by respiratory therapy the contents remained sterile. More pertinently, in 1983, a hospital study in Pennsylvania showed copper\u2019s effectiveness in lowering the E. coli count on brass door knobs.<\/p>\n<p>Copper has a long history of protecting human healthcare.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #993300;\">\u2014<\/span>What is antimicrobial copper?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"bauer-spacer clearfix\" data-desktop=\"40\" data-mobi=\"40\" data-smobi=\"40\">Antimicrobial is the ability of copper ions to neutralize germs, fungi and viruses. Pathogenic microbes remain alive and contagious on surfaces for many hours, days, even months.<\/div>\n<div class=\"bauer-spacer clearfix\" data-desktop=\"40\" data-mobi=\"40\" data-smobi=\"40\">They form a \u201ctank\u201d and are transmitted by touch. However, germs cannot survive on surfaces antimicrobial copper.<\/div>\n<div class=\"bauer-text clearfix\">\n<p>How antimicrobial copper eliminates pathogenic germs :<\/p>\n\t \n\t\t<div  class=\"bullet-list style-1  arrow\">\n\t\t<ul>\n<li>Disrupts the operation of the potassium-sodium pump in the outer membrane of germs<\/li>\n<li>Disrupts the osmotic balance of microbes<\/li>\n<li>It causes oxidative stress by producing hydrogen peroxide<\/li>\n<li>Disrupts the phase of DNA replication in viruses<\/li>\n<li>Stages of elimination of pathogenic microbes from the antimicrobial copper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n<p>Antimicrobial copper is used on the surfaces of frequent contact in a hospitals, schools, gyms, public buildings and public transport. Constitutes already an active ingredient in many different types of antimicrobial products used in agriculture, in marine environments, in health care and at home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #993300;\">\u2014<\/span>Antimicrobial copper against nosocomial Infections<\/h3>\n<p>During the subsequent decades the major concern within the medical community has been Health Care Associated Infections (HCAI), or \u201cnosocomial\u201d infections.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s report from the WHO notes how difficult it is to gather reliable and comparable HCAI evidence globally or even nationally.\u00a0 However, the conclusion is that \u201chundreds of millions of patients around the world suffer to those infections.\u201d<sup>7<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Only receiving public attention when a family member suffers or there are outbreaks, HCAIs are a very real endemic, on-going problem and one that no institution or country can claim to have solved, despite many efforts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2978 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/halco.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/medical-insurance-with-family-stethoscope-wooden-desk-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halco.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/medical-insurance-with-family-stethoscope-wooden-desk-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halco.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/medical-insurance-with-family-stethoscope-wooden-desk-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/halco.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/medical-insurance-with-family-stethoscope-wooden-desk.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The statistics are harrowing.\u00a0 The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) indicated HCAI levels in Europe as 7.1% in 2009. This equates to over 4 million patients each year.<sup>9<\/sup>. Additionally,\u00a0 The estimated incidence rate in the United States of America was 4.5% in 2002, corresponding to 1.7 million affected patients<sup>10<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Infections in ICUs can be as high as 51%, most of these having health care-association.\u00a0 Furthermore, the longer patients stay in an ICU, the more at risk they become of acquiring an infection.<sup>12<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The measures taken towards reducing microbe transportation through frequently touched surfaces started in the last decade with the \u201c<em>Clean Care is Safer Care<\/em>\u201d campaign (WHO)<sup>12<\/sup>. In many national healthcare systems, specific guidelines are in place, in order to raise awareness and help combat nosocomial infections.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001 in the UK,\u00a0<em>\u2018the EPIC Project: Developing National Evidence-based Guidelines for Preventing Healthcare associated Infections\u2019\u2019\u00a0<\/em>among other good practices, points out touch surfaces as one of the major components of microbial concentration and transfer<sup>13<\/sup>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014History of antimicrobial copper That copper has beneficial effects in humans throughout history which is true for at least 4,000 years. In ancient Egypt, copper was used to create drinking water containers and to apply powdered metal to wounds for disinfection. The Aztecs used copper to treat skin diseases. Also, Hippocrates, the father of medicine &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/halco.gr\/el\/abous-us\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halco.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halco.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halco.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halco.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halco.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/halco.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/halco.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2581\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halco.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}