Blogs from Dr. Halden Shane

Seats, Seats and more Seats, Is yours clean?

halden123@aol.com (Dr. Halden Shane) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 05:15:53 +0000

Is your seat clean?

Have you ever thought twice about sitting down in a seat? It’s after work and your tired, just boarded your long train ride home and hoped that there was an empty seat for your trip. The door opens and the movie line begins to move in quickly, you just rush to get your seat. You and your wife just land at the airport, get into the rental bus and sit down to be driven to your rental car for you week of fun and relaxation. You are boarding your plane to grab your seat to go home after a long week on the east coast, retuning to the west coast and will spend the next six hours or more in your seat. An evening out with your family to a ball game and just sat down to enjoy your favorite sports. These examples can go on, and on, and on, seats, seats, and more seats.

Have you ever thought twice about who sat in the seat before you or even better what is still in the seat that you can’t see? Well its about time you did because over 50 percent of all public seats are contaminated with fecal matter, and a much greater percentage with other dangerous pathogens including deadly MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staph Aureus).

With the jump of the feared Hospital acquired MRSA (HA-MRSA) to Community acquired MRA (CA-MRSA) everyone is at risk. Good-morning America recently did a study” Germ test shows public seats full of bacteria” see link here.

What is one to do? Why has the public not demand the routine decontamination and sterilization of all public seats? Well those answer maybe because only a few people are familiar with TOMI Environmental Solutions revolutionary new technology, right out of star wars. TOMI SteraMist is a aerosol that when spayed on a seat kills all pathogens on contact. The result is a six-log kill, that is 99.9999% So demand your seat be sterile for less than a dollar a day, isn’t your piece of mind and your families health worth 0.60 cents, instead of wasting time being worried about these issues, do something about it. Ask the owners and employees of all these venues to have their seats decontaminated and sterilized. Demand a sterile seat to sit on and no more thoughts of who or what is sharing your seat with you. If you approve of this message go your Facebook page and open up the tomiesinc site and hit the “like” button. Also visit us at www.tomiesinc.com.

I Demand a Zero Infection Rate! Do You? The New Technology For HAI Elimination!

halden123@aol.com (Dr. Halden Shane) — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:10:25 +0000

We all know where these HAI’s (Healthcare Associated Infections) are breeding, living and waiting to ruin the day of another defenseless patient or hospital personnel. We have many studies showing that traditional cleaning just doesn’t cut it today. Whether it be the increase in population,the ease of traveling across continents with these bugs hitchhiking on you or just a developed resistant to antibiotics that has enabled these Superbugs bugs to gain a choke hold on us.

A study involving commonly touched surfaces (bed rails, telephones, call buttons, toilet seats, wheelchairs and bedside tables) in patient rooms with C. Diff found that after routine cleaning, 78% of the surfaces remained contaminated with C. Diff spores.

A separate study of 49 New England hospitals found 25% of OR surfaces were overlooked by current cleaning teams.

Another study demonstrated that MRSA (Staph) lives outside of the human body for 9 months. Hepatitis C lives a least 16 hours and up to 4 days. Clostridium Difficile (C-Diff) a current major problem in todays healthcare setting lingers and lives 70 plus days and Acinetobacter baumannii lives up to 20 plus days.

A recent study, published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE, addresses just Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA infections associated with surgery.

"Our estimates of the financial burden of surgical site infections due to MRSA are unique," Deverick Anderson of Duke University Medical Center and colleagues wrote.

"Surgical site infections due to MRSA led to charges in excess of $19 million for the group of study hospitals," they added. "Surgical site infections due to MRSA led to: 7-fold increased risk of death. 35-fold increased risk of hospital readmission, adding more than 3 weeks of additional hospitalization. Along with $60,000 of additional charges added to a hospital bill, compared to uninfected controls."

So what are we to do? We have tried hand wipes, adding additional cleaning personnel, the use of newer disinfection products and zero infection protocols but still pathogens are winning .Patients are dying at a clip of 271 people a day from healthcare associated infections.

Well TOMI Environmental Solution has your Solution! We are in the Hydrogen Peroxide Space, but not just disinfection, We at TOMI expect our product to leave the surface we clean, Sterile! Hydrogen Peroxide, is the new buzz word around the infection disease control world and APIC. But TOMI’s technology does NOT take hours to decontaminate and sterilize a room, and you don’t have to shut down the room and not occupy it for a shift, and you don’t have to evacuate the occupants next door because of excessive noise,or have to remove delicate equipment and computers because the solution you are using is made up of 30-35 percent hydrogen peroxide and may be corrosive ,or that you have concerns that the sterility of a soft goods package has been violated and after all that, you may only get a 99.99 percent or 4 log kill, that is disinfection.

We at TOMI recommend routine use and application of our product on bed and bed rails,telephones, cabinets inside and out, call buttons, bedside tables, corners of rooms, toilet seats, handles, cafeteria seats, physical therapy equipment, hand rails, hallways, OR surfaces, wheelchairs, Now you should have it, One employee, One technology, TOMI’s Solution, net result, Zero infection rate, at least zero infection rate from outside the body.

How do we accomplish this? TOMI Environmental Solution, solution uses less than a 7 percent hydrogen peroxide in an aerosol mist, that is applied to all those hard to reach and difficult to clean areas. The mist is delivered via a gun that you aim and shoot. Thats right, like a video game, but you always win. Oh, by the way it kills on contact, leaves no residue and is a six log kill,that is 99.9999 percent, that is what healthcare should demand and that is what healthcare must demand. Call TOMI Environmental Solutions at 310-275-2255 or check us out on the web at www.tomiesinc.com.

DEATH BY FOOD ,NO MORE A NEW STANDARD TO ELIMINATE E.COLI

halden123@aol.com (Dr. Halden Shane) — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 04:14:56 +0000

Scientists are still probing the deadly E. coli strain in Europe are finding the bacteria combines a highly poisonous, but common, toxin with a rarely seen "glue" that binds it to a patient's intestines.

It may take months for the global team of researchers to fully understand the characteristics of the bacteria that have killed at least 18 people in Europe and sickened thousands. But they fear this E. coli strain is the most toxic yet to hit a human population.

Most Escherichia coli or E. coli bacteria are harmless. The strain that is sickening people in Germany and other parts of Europe, known as 0104:H4, is part of a class of bacteria known as Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, or STEC.

This class has the ability to stick to intestinal walls where it pumps out toxins, causing diarrhea and vomiting. In severe cases, it causes hemolytic uremic syndrome or HUS, attacking the kidneys and causing coma, seizure, and stroke.

It is time that the world tightens its food production and processing procedures. TOMI environmental Solutions a small Southern California based company has a one –two punch methodology that when instituted in the food preparation and processing line allows for the washing of all food products with a FDA approved ozone wash TOMI’s MSW 858 mobile surface washer and then for decontamination of the conveyor belts, equipment and prep tables using TOMI’s SteraMist portable unit an activated hydrogen peroxide based aerosol. Net result Sterilization and death to Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, or STEC, Not death to humans!

For more information contact TOMI Environmental Solutions at 310-275-2255 or on the web at www.tomiesinc.com.

TOMI'S deadly duo is the food industries answer! Two guns, two applications, no more recalls. The new standard in food service, get on board. www.tomiesinc.com

Help Keep Our Firefighters Healthy

halden123@aol.com (Dr. Halden Shane) — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:49:54 +0000

Our Firefighters are exposed to dangers everyday, many of them deadly. However many of these dangers are out of their control. MRSA is another danger that has invaded their firehouses, now there is a technology that was developed for the U.S. Defense Dept., to neutralize a buildings contaminated with Anthrax. This technology is NOW available to give our firefighters the piece of mind that the surfaces they clean up in, cook in, sleep and sit on are MRSA free.

As a physician with an understanding of infectious disease and considering the jump from hospital acquired MRSA (HA-MRSA) to community acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) it makes sense for the fire departments around the globe to potentially have concerns over MRSA and other potentially deadly pathogens invading their own fire station. The close sleeping quarters, showers and group lounges are perfect environments for MRSA to flourish in and may live up to 9 months on surfaces.

Our technology was developed by a major U.S. defense contractor and is activated Hydrogen Peroxide that is aerosolized into a mist and has a six-log kill upon contact of bacteria, molds, spores and inactivates viruses. First used by the United States Biological Combat Assessment System Program and The Airborne Warning and Control System program. It is a shoot and spray methodology and can be applied to masks, uniforms, equipment, showers, beds and almost any surface with a six-log kill upon contact and leaves no residue.

TOMI is discounting our SteraMist Portable unit 10 percent as a courtesy for the heroic services they do for our communities.The SteraMist portable unit is available for download from our web site at http://www.tomiesinc.com. Please feel free to donate these units to your local firehouses.

For further information contact TOMI Environmental Solutions at 310-275-2255 or contact Dr. Halden Shane at doc@tomiesinc.com

Thank you for your Service and Dedication to your community.

Dr. Shane

WISDOM BRINGS WEALTH

halden123@aol.com (Dr. Halden Shane) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:27:07 +0000

“As long as you love and learn, you are young. The day you stop loving and learning you become old”

Owls are known for their wisdom and TOMI's new owl mascot stands for Wisdom along with Online Writing and Learning. So I will do the writing and hopefully you (the reader) will do the Learning. This OWL blog will educate you on indoor environments, green living along with other issues that will be life changing. So please help and forward this blog to all your friends.

For example: When two people participate in act of love making their body friction results in losing at least a third of a pound of dry skin between them, thus resulting in the food for the formation of millions of dust mites.

http://www.ehso.com/ehshome/dustmites.php

After you receive this material and follow the advice, it should surely save you and your love ones excessive healthcare costs, emotional stress, reduce your energy bills and add healthy years to your life. Because everyone should be able to enjoy their birth rite to live, work, learn and play in clean healthy air!

TOMI is not selling anything to you, just educating you, if the right end user reads this and acts then the world will be greener and all will benefit including TOMI. Stay tuned for lesson one.

Many thanks,

The Owl Doc

Help safe a life!

halden123@aol.com (Dr. Halden Shane) — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:24:34 +0000

Help save a life , participate in making this viral . The life you save may be your own or a member of your family.TOMI SteraMist is the answer to the worlds E-COLI scare. Pass this blog on to 5 friends ,you won't become wealthy monetarily but you will be blessed. Hopefully the right persons will see it and initiate Steramist Technology into the food industry. Check out TOMI's website, www.tomiesinc.com

In Europe's unusually large outbreak, an emerging super-strain named O104:H4 has sickened at least 1,600 people and killed 18. Experts say there are gaps in the U.S. food safety system, and that it's impossible to test for every illness-causing strain of E. coli.

Today, the food industry and health authorities focus mostly on a single strain of E. coli bacteria that until now was considered the most dangerous. But strains known collectively as "the other E. colis" were sickening people well before the extra-deadly European bug burst on the scene.

"It's a wake-up call around the world," said the Dr. Robert Tauxe of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has long been concerned about the lesser-known strains.

Life in a bowl

halden123@aol.com (Dr. Halden Shane) — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:30:05 +0000

This is how I feel whenever I step onto a plane - we are breathing in the air of everyone in the big flying fishbowl! If the guy next to you 'whistles', there you go - you breathe in the same air. On a scarier note, I was watching CNN today, and discovered that over 50% of our grocery cart handles are full of contamination - including e-coli and fecal matter! Yep, really reminds me of the gold fish up there.

Cucumbers anyone?

halden123@aol.com (Dr. Halden Shane) — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 06:52:49 +0000

The recent spate of E-coli infectious on cucumbers got me thinking on how we could introduce TOMI's products in the food processing industry. SteraMist in particular is easily applied onto these hard surfaces to kill all the bugs. This inspired me to write a paper on the effects of Ozone and BIT on the food industry. You can download the paper here.