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Hi Kate, I cant really answer your questions however I have been
involved with the roll out of the GP respiratory clinics, and now
vaccination clinics for the Dept of Health. We have undertaken initial
IP&C auditing and then follow-up auditing (at about 6 months) and the
feedback I am getting is that the products approved by TGA as being
virucidal (Viruclean, bleach etc) have destroyed keyboards, iPads,
thermometers and other electronic devices through the degradation of the
plastic casings. As the GP clinics are cleaning touch points after very
patient encounter these are being wiped over between 2 and 50 times a
day (depending on how many COVID tests they are doing).
Just more evidence that it happens!
Vanessa Sparke
Lecturer – Nursing and Midwifery
James Cook University, Cairns Campus
Building A2, room 137.1
E: vanessa.sparke1@jcu.edu.au
P: 61 7 42321531
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plastics in ward based shared equipment/devices
Hi Everyone,
We are currently reviewing the clinical equipment cleaning processes
used at our health service as there is a lot of variation of practice
between wards/people, and with products used compared with those
recommended in the IFU. However, the main reason we are reviewing this
is due to having a significant number of items turning up at our
engineering dept with stress cracking in the plastics.
Has anyone previously investigated environmental stress cracking in
plastics of clinical equipment at your organisation?
If yes, are you able to share with me your findings and whether it was
able to be attributed to a particular reason?
What do you recommend for cleaning products in ward settings (e.g. IV
pumps, commodes, weigh chairs, obs machines etc.)? In particular:
* Do you direct staff to use only 1-2 products to make it easy to
know which one to use for which circumstance (clinical vs environmental
OR clinician vs cleaner) ?
* Or do you specify a particular product for each individual item or
group of items as per the IFU?
* If you go against the IFU recommendations, what process did you
go through to decide on the chosen product?
Looking forward to hearing from everyone’s experiences.
Kind regards
Kate Ryan
RMD Program Officer
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0434 609 208 | 03 9496 6706
Infectious Diseases Department
Level 7, Harold Stokes Building
145 Studley Road, Heidelberg
PO Box 5555, Victoria, 3084
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