Author(s):
Schneider, Guilherme ; Vieira, Leticia Genova ; Carvalho, Herica Emilia Félix de ; Sousa, Álvaro Francisco Lopes de ; Watanabe, Evandro ; Andrade, Denise de ; Silveira, Renata Cristina de Campos Pereira
Date: 2023
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/155232
Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
Subject(s): antimicrobial agents; biosafety; health services; infection control; textiles; R Medicine; RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Drug guides; Health Professions(all); SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being; SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
Description
Funding Information: This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brazil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001. Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2023 Schneider, Vieira, Carvalho, Sousa, Watanabe, Andrade and Silveira.
Background: Antimicrobial textiles have proved to be a promising biosafety strategy. Thus, the current study was focused on identifying which antimicrobial substances impregnated in textiles used in healthcare services confer efficacy in reducing the microbial load present in these textiles and/or the Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) rates, when compared to conventional textiles. Methods: A systematic review of intervention studies using MEDLINE via the PubMed portal, EMBASE, CINAHL, Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar and medRxiv. The studies identified were selected according to eligibility criteria and submitted to data extraction and methodological quality evaluation through Joanna Briggs Institute specific tools. The outcomes were synthesized qualitatively. Results: 23 studies were selected to comprise the final sample, in which antimicrobial textiles were used by hospitalized patients, by health professionals during work shifts and in inanimate healthcare environments. Conclusions: Copper, silver, zinc oxide, titanium and silver-doped titanium impregnated in textiles used by patients confer efficacy in reducing the microbial load of these textiles and/or the HAI rates. Quaternary ammonium, chlorhexidine, silver and copper together, quaternary ammonium, alcohols and isothiazolone derivatives together, chitosan and dimethylol dimethyl hydantoin together, all impregnated in textiles used by health professionals confer efficacy in reducing the microbial load of these textiles. Quaternary ammonium impregnated in textiles used in inanimate healthcare environments confers efficacy in reducing the microbial load of these textiles.
