Abstract: Ultraviolet light disinfection systems expose medical devices, surfaces, patients and healthcare clinicians to UV light having wavelengths consist with killing microorganisms. UV light systems may use logic to govern the operation of UV light sources so as to apply a disinfecting dose of the UV light. UV detectors measure UV light exposure. Enclosures contain medical devices and flood the medical devices with the UV light. Some enclosures accommodate a person. Some UV systems project UV light onto high-touch surfaces of a healthcare environment. Some systems may be deployed within a patient transport vehicle. Some UV systems may be incorporated into medical devices.

Abstract: A disinfection system can include a console and an operably connected disinfection unit. The console can have electronic circuitry including memory with executable instructions configured to cause the console to perform various processes when executed by one or more processors of the console. The various processes can include characterizing with medical-device characterization logic characteristics of at least an elongate portion of a medical device for establishing or maintaining vascular access in a patient. The various processes can also include determining with disinfection logic a disinfection profile for disinfecting at least the elongate portion of the medical device with ultraviolet (“UV”) light. The disinfection unit can include a disinfection compartment suitably sized to enclose the medical device therein.

Abstract: A system and method for disinfecting medical devices includes a covering for a medical cart that exposes medical devices disposed on the cart to a disinfecting ultraviolet light. The covering includes a light emitting system that includes a number of UV light sources, such as LEDs, configured to define an ultraviolet light environment beneath the covering. The light emitting system may include one or more light pipes and/or optical fibers. systems and methods. An opaque layer of the covering contains the ultraviolet light environment beneath the covering. Portions of the light emitting system suspend from the covering so as to emit UV light between adjacent medical devices on the cart.