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posted during flu season, asking all visitors to be sure
to use them before they step inside. As an extra precau-
tion, greeters are stationed by the entrances to make
sure requests are followed.
Getting patients to actively participate and increasing
compliance have been a recent focus area, including:
• Partnering with physicians' offices and vendors to
provide patients with CHG wipes and track and docu-
ment compliance.
• Asking patients to take full-body showers with CHG
products both the night before and the day of surgery.
• Asking patients having general surgery to gargle
and rinse with antiseptic mouthwash on the day of sur-
gery.
• Using CHG 4% wipes on operative sites and surround-
ing areas, and allowing sufficient drying time.
• Asking patients with artificial nails to perform an
additional 3-minute hand scrub.
• In-servicing techs and circulators on proper skin-prep-
ping techniques, and standardizing preps.
• Modifying the online patient portal health ques-
tionnaire to include questions about compliance and
conditions such as open sores, illness, fever or whether
patients have traveled outside the country in the previ-
ous month.
"We have a low infection rate already," says Ms.
Duncan, "but we wanted to get as low as we possibly
could."
— Jim Burger
Call AOI for Information
800.576.1266 or
949.580.1266
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