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the cleaning. But, at our facility,
rooms get turned over fairly
quickly. It wasn't realistic to
expect that a supervisor could
Split microfiber denier
provides enhanced
absorbency and
contamination pickup.
get to the room before housekeeping to apply the swab, or
wait more time to return for the
review. (We'd also heard stories
from our peers about housekeepers who brought their own
lights to make sure their work
included the right spot.)
We wanted a simple solution
that wouldn't delay turnovers or
patient throughput. The system
we chose only required us to
swab after cleaning to find out
how much of a bioload remained
there. It works by collecting
adenosine tri-phosphate (ATP), a
compound found in all organic
matter. You swab anywhere in a
room, slide the swab into a reader that uses the bioluminescence
of ATP to detect the presence of
organic matter on a swabbed
surface, and 30 seconds later it
tells you how much of it is there.
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