areas should be disinfected after each case in the OR, as surfaces
don't have to be physically touched to be contaminated.
Aerosolization of blood and body fluids is not uncommon. In the pre-
op and PACU, after the patient leaves the bay and is not returning, all
environmental surfaces
should be disinfected.
5
Does whole
room disinfec-
tion
replace traditional
cleaning and disin-
fection?
The answer is no.
Whole room disinfec-
tion is used as an
adjunct to traditional
environmental surface
cleaning and disinfec-
tion. A relatively new
concept, the goal for
whole room disinfec-
tion, particularly when
first introduced, was
to terminally disinfect
rooms — especially in
hard-to-reach places.
Patients need to be
out of the room for
whole room disinfec-
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