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Hi Michael
Our facility adopts the same approach as yours- annually or if soiled/damaged. The exception would be outbreak situations or some of the more serious MROs that we rarely see in the NT.
Cheers
Kind regards
Yana Albrey
RN, BNurs, PGCert Clinical Nursing,
PGCert Infection Prevention & Control
CICP-A
Clinical Nurse Manager
Infection Prevention & Control
Royal Darwin and Palmerston Hospitals| Top End Health Service
Northern Territory Government
Floor 1, Building 1, 105 Rocklands Drive, Tiwi
GPO Box 41326, Casuarina, NT Postcode
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I would like some discussion around what facilities are doing in regard to replacing disposable antimicrobial curtains, if you use them, and specifically why you do this. Or even if you don’t use them, why you chose that approach.
We have used disposable antimicrobial curtains in our hospitals for some time now, and only replace then annually or when torn or soiled. We do not routinely replace then after use in a room with Transmission Based Precautions (which is the main basis for their cost effectiveness, actually),
Our hotel services staff recently started dating disposable antimicrobial bed curtains for 2 years instead of 1, based on manufacturer recommendations, although our policy still officially says replace annually. We had a recent external compliance audit that noted this, and recommended we standardise to changing all disposable antimicrobial bed curtains annually.
But that got me thinking: what is the optimum routine replacement strategy for disposable antimicrobial bed curtains? I can see guidelines in various jurisdictions that say things like ‘follow local policy’ but no-one seems to make a bold recommendation of how long. This is understandable given not all antimicrobial curtains have the same antimicrobial action, etc. But it doesn’t help facilities decide what they should be doing.
This might be a good topic for another Infection Control Matters podcast (hint, hint, Brett, Phil and Martin!), but I would be interested to know what the current practice is in facilities within Australia, and if possible, to hear why they have chosen that approach.
Thanks for any discussion.
Cheers
Michael
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