Determining high touch areas in the operating room with levels of contamination

Determining high touch areas in the operating room with levels of contamination

Highlights • The operating room was not included in the 2010 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's list of recommended high touch hospital areas to clean. • This study identified high touch areas within an operating room setting. • The researchers recommend that an established cleaning p...

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Veröffentlicht in:American journal of infection control 2016-11, Vol.44 (11), p.1350-1355
Hauptverfasser: Link, Terri, MPH, BSN, CNOR, CIC, Kleiner, Catherine, PhD, RN, CNS, Mancuso, Mary P., MA, Dziadkowiec, Oliwier, PhD, Halverson-Carpenter, Katherine, RN, MBA, CNOR
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
contaminated hands
Contamination
Disease control
environmental cleaning
environmental cultures
Environmental Microbiology
Environmental surfaces
environmental surveillance
high touch areas
high touch surfaces
Hospitals
Humans
Infection Control
Infectious Disease
Microbiological Techniques
operating room
Operating Rooms
procedure rooms
Protocol
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Zusammenfassung:Highlights • The operating room was not included in the 2010 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's list of recommended high touch hospital areas to clean. • This study identified high touch areas within an operating room setting. • The researchers recommend that an established cleaning protocol be established and followed within the operating room setting based on the findings of this study.
ISSN:0196-6553
1527-3296
DOI:10.1016/j.ajic.2016.03.013