The Center for Disease Control (CDC) postulates that 1 in every 20 patients will contract a nosocomial/hospital-acquired infection. While there are several companies in the marketplace promising and boasting that their products will completely eradicate all micro-organisms ever discovered, these claims are not entirely true. From keeping medical infusion pumps and other equipment and instruments continually sterile to always wearing gloves, preventing infection can be a full-time job in and of itself.

As a healthcare professional who wishes not only to ensure their own safety but also the safety of their patients, these are a few tips you can employ to ensure you and your patients are infection-free.

1. Always Use Personal Protective Equipment

As a healthcare professional, it is mandatory that you use protective equipment such as gloves, masks, and overall/coats when attending to specific patients. These protective pieces of equipment serve as a barrier against infection between you and your patient. Hand gloves should be changed after each patient’s visit, and a new pair should be worn for the next patient.

2. Sterilization of Equipment

Sterilization of medical pieces of equipment, especially those used during invasive diagnostic or therapeutic procedures are mandatory. A biomedical equipment service company can even provide an equipment sterilizer that can be used in sterilizing and disinfecting pieces of equipment like endoscopes, laryngoscopes, colonoscopes, medical infusion pumps, etc. By sterilizing these pieces of equipment after patient use, all microbes that might have attached to it during the examination of a patient will be killed.

3. Disinfection of Rooms

The waiting rooms, theatres, offices, call room, even the breakroom, and nurses’ station should be cleaned daily at regular intervals. The cleaning solution should contain bleach and disinfectant in order to sanitize these areas, thus, eliminating microbes that could be present there. Cleaning all these areas and more in a medical facility ensures that doctors and patients are prevented, to an extent, from transmitting infections from one person to another.

Conclusion

A biomedical equipment service company is not only important in helping to keep you and your patients free from infections but also specializes in the maintenance and repair of all medical equipment that in your facility. Contact Coast Biomedical for all of your biomedical equipment needs.