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Infection prevention and control
Published in Nicola Neale, Joanne Sale, Developing Practical Nursing Skills, 2022
After Mrs. Lewis’s discharge from the side room, it will be the nursing staff’s responsibility to ensure that the room, including furniture, as well as any reusable equipment such as the commode and drip stands are thoroughly decontaminated before admitting another person. This is usually a shared activity requiring liaison between nursing and facilities staff. Disposable equipment used for her care must be disposed of as infective waste.
Standards for Personnel Performing Hemapheresis Therapies
Published in James L. MacPherson, Duke O. Kasprisin, Therapeutic Hemapheresis, 2019
All reusable equipment should be cleaned, sterilized, and properly labeled before storage for reuse. All disposable equipment should be properly discarded to prevent cross-contamination, using the infection control standards of the institution as a basis.
Military Environments
Published in Kenneth D Boffard, Manual of Definitive Surgical Trauma Care: Incorporating Definitive Anaesthetic Trauma Care, 2019
Forward surgical teams must be light, mobile, and rapidly deployable to allow them to respond in an uncertain battlefield (see also Section 22.6). Restrictions and constraints within these teams are many, and include limitations of space and equipment, poor lighting, and the need to achieve some degree of climate control for the human resources and, particularly, for blood and other products. Some re-sterilization of surgical tools may be possible, but disposable equipment, water, and especially oxygen will all be limited.
Optometry Australia’s infection control guidelines 2020
Published in Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 2021
Kerryn M Hart, Fiona Stapleton, Nicole Carnt, Luke Arundel, Ka-Yee Lian
Other precautions to consider include7,47–50: Isolating patients who display symptoms of the illness or keeping potentially infectious individuals at least 1.5 m apart from othersFrequent hand washing after contact with respiratory secretions and contaminated objects or materials, using hands-free taps if possibleUsing appropriate PPE (according to the procedure and suspected pathogen), such as surgical masks, P2/N95 masks, gloves, eye protection and breath shields for the slitlampMaking tissues, face masks and alcohol-based hand sanitiser available in waiting areasProviding ‘contactless’ service wherever possible, including non-contact payment optionsUsing disposable equipment where possiblePerforming systematic decontamination of work surfaces and high-touch points (e.g. patient chair, bench tops, door handles, slitlamp breath shield) after each patient using sodium hypochlorite or an appropriate TGA-listed hospital-grade disinfectant with specific claims5Encouraging home delivery of spectacle/contact lenses to reduce the number of potentially infectious people visiting the practice
Measures against COVID-19 pandemic – a single tertiary center experience
Published in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2022
Orkun Ilgen, Bahadır Saatli, Tunc Timur, Hakan Kula, Selim Kandemir, Sefa Kurt, Erkan Cagliyan
Anaesthetic breathing circuits were discarded postoperatively to eliminate the contamination (Wilkes et al. 2000; Kamming et al. 2003; Tan 2004). Disposable equipment was kept in biohazard bags. All surgical instruments were sent to sterilization. All medical devices’ surfaces were cleaned by quaternary ammonium chloride. Then, the room was cleaned by sodium hypochlorite and irradiated with ultraviolet-C. Because of these postoperative procedures, the time between the surgeries was increased.
Hygiene of venepuncture tourniquets in Denmark
Published in Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, 2018
Eva Rabing Brix Petersen, Mads Nybo
First, attention must be drawn to reusable devices. To avoid contamination, reuse should be discouraged, as patients acquiring nosocomial infections will result in increased costs likely to superpose the money spent on disposable equipment [15]. To calculate the exact amount saved requires a proper health-technology assessment, which certainly should be encouraged.