S2E8 Zyris Velop: Must haves for the Infection Control Coordinator

Level Up Infection Prevention Podcast

In this episode of the Level Up Infection Prevention Podcast, we have invited Rolando Mia from Zyris- a company known for a product called Isolite. We’re going to dive into what’s happening in their company, the problems they’re having, and how are they coming up with a solution to mitigate infections during this pandemic era. Stay tuned!

What’s happening at Zyris?

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Zyris is a medical device manufacturer. The premise that they’re approaching the market with is they believe everybody deserves more comfort and safety. They discovered that with the advent of COVID, when people look at their infection control protocols, wiping down surfaces, people believe that their IC protocols are effective but they think that it’s somewhat of a fallacy. The eye-opening part of it has to do with looking at how people deal with infection control. Now, their system, the Isolite was seen as effective at mitigating and eliminating aerosols.

[3:36]

They also discovered an effective way to help practices disinfect the entire office. They came up with the Velop. Velop is an operatory sprayer and it enables you to use the disinfectant which they discovered to cover everything in your dental practice. In addition to the traditional surfaces that clinicians are cleaning and wiping down, it enables clinicians to disinfect and cover walls, doors, door handles, the waiting room, the restrooms, hallways, etc This system gives you the ability to do that very quickly and efficiently, without requiring you to wipe everything down.

Disinfectants

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Zyris chose a disinfectant, hypochlorous acid, that's naturally occurring in the human body. They want it to be as safe as possible and make sure that it was efficacious. The first step is to find a disinfectant that works.

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The second part has to do with how do you get that onto the surfaces in a manner that is effective. Zyris tested hundreds of different nozzles, pressures, and came up with the perfect combination of air pressure, and size so that when you're using Zyris’ Velop, the size of the particles is basically a mist, or around 100 microns, which means it can travel far enough and carry enough of the disinfectant onto the surface.

Infection Control

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With the advent of COVID, infection control has become more important than ever. Dr. Hirsch, Zyris’ inventor, uses a system. He sprays his patients coming in and going out, and reassures them that it's good. With the system, you can pick it up, and within several minutes, spray, not only your chair, but all of the hard surfaces like the floor around your operatory, countertops, handles, drawers that you're using. You don't have to wipe it down.

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If you have a busy clinic or practice, you've got a lot of people coming in. In addition to wiping down, which is generally effective, give the surfaces a good spray especially in the areas that people are touching. Let it sit there, dry, and you're reassured that it's nice and clean.

Visit their website to know more:

https://www.zyris.com/