APPROXIMATELY ONE-FOURTH OF THE ESTIMATED 2 MILLION patients who suffer healthcare-acquired infections each year contract them perioperatively, according to the most recent statistics from the CDC. There's no denying that 500,000 patients infected is a huge number, nor that 90,000 patients dead from HAIs every year is unacceptable. While federal agencies and regulatory bodies try to devise the preventative protocols, manufacturers are developing the products you'll work with on the front lines. Increasingly, their target isn't just the microbial growth on you and patients, but growth around the facility as well.