Contact Times
The total amount of time that it takes to inactivate ALL of the microorganisms listed on the product label.
What is "contact time"?
This should be done with the O.R. bed when mopping, after every case.
When should you move the O.R. bed?
Use this door to enter an "open" O.R. room.
What is the pod door?
Two minutes.
What is the contact time for the Sanicloth purple top wipes?
Name one instance when you EVS should be called to clean a room instead of O.R. staff.
Terminal cleaning or when a chemo spill over 500ml occurs.
Use this door to enter an O.R. room with a bed or large equipment.
What is the hallway door?
Four minutes.
What is contact time for Sanicloth orange top bleach wipes?
Name at least one high-touch object that is often missed during turnover cleaning.
What are the bed controls, telephones, and door handles?
You should empty the red and teal bins when they are this full.
What is 2/3 full?
Three minutes.
What is the contact time for Sanicloth grey top wipes?
This is when the nursing station, keyboard, and chair should be wiped.
When is after every case during turnover?
As soon as the patient leaves the room.
When is it ok to begin turnover cleaning?
The orange top Sanicloth is used to disinfect this microorganism.
What is C. Diff.?
The method or direction an O.R. should be cleaned.
Top to bottom and outside to inside.
You should not enter nor exit the pod door to an O.R. when you are carrying either of these.
Blood products or specimen.