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out proper eye protection — a face shield or safety glasses — leav-
ing them susceptible to being splashed with high-level disinfectant,
the nasty stuff that's used to kill infectious biofilm. Why don't techs
properly protect themselves? Perhaps because they've lost respect
for the constant dangers associated with the repetitiveness of their
job. But a good tech remains cautious at all times.
6. Scope segregation
Ensure scopes can be moved between dirty reprocessing rooms
and clean storage areas without meeting in the middle.
I'm lucky that our practice's 31 physicians work in beautifully
designed centers, one of which has 2-room procedure modules that
sit on opposite sides of a hall. Doors in the procedure areas open
directly into a room
where the manual
cleaning takes place.
Beyond that room are
2 separate areas for
automated reprocess-
ing and clean scope
storage.
Moving dirty scopes
into adjacent rooms
like these can be
done with an open
tray, but transporting
them across a hall
requires a specially
designed cinch bag or
closed container.
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