When/How To Clean Spray Bottles?

RE: When/How To Clean Spray Bottles?

Robyn — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:03:54 GMT

[quote user="maylane"]

Best practice would be to only have single use bottles. multi use bottles are a known source of contamination. Any protocol to clean the bottles or replace them periodically would be better than no policy. The barriers we face as nurses tend to be cost related. Perhaps if your going to ask your bosses to allow you to replace them do a little cost benefit analysis.

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Cost is definitely a factor, I can imagine the bosses' face if I told her I was going to start using single-use bottles (all the plastic wastage too...). I think the problem with a cost-benefit analysis is that we wouldn't have any real benefits to demonstrate. We've never had any nosocomial infection or MRSA issues (touch wood!) so it would be hard to demonstrate what this would change!

Sounds like this isn't something that's been put together already by a better source though, so drawing up my own protocol it is! I think swiling them out with bleach between refills might be the best way to go for us currently, but if anyone has any better ideas I'd love to hear them.

Cheers everyone!

RE: When/How To Clean Spray Bottles?

bumble bee — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 09:57:13 GMT

[quote user="enigmaticat-uk"]

I don't have any data on this but we use the 500ml bottles of Vetasept chlorhex clear which we get through quite quickly so whenever we finish one I wash it out & use it to replace one of our anistel bottles.

[/quote] We do exactly the same,so it doesnt really cost any extra.Also good for recycling/environment.

RE: When/How To Clean Spray Bottles?

apache — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 02:39:48 GMT

[quote user="maylane"]Perhaps if your going to ask your bosses to allow you to replace them do a little cost benefit analysis. Or swan the outside of some dirty bottles and see what’s growing? [/quote]

That's like swabbing a dog's leg and deciding what's causing its UTI.

[quote user="maylane"]We are so behind human health care in our infection control policies [/quote]

You mean so far ahead? Human risk of post op infection around 4% overall, with the vast majority of patients getting prophylactic antibiotics. We never use antibiotics for clean surgery and I really can't remember the last time we had a post op infection needing treatment.

We find clinical audit in this area practically impossible due to such low complication rates!

RE: When/How To Clean Spray Bottles?

maylane — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 22:26:12 GMT

RE: When/How To Clean Spray Bottles?

enigmaticat-uk — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:58:38 GMT