Hospitalising the MRSA Patient

Arlo Guthrie — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 10:06:31 GMT

Current Revision posted to Veterinary Standard Operating Procedures by Arlo Guthrie on 9/28/2023 10:06:31 AM

Patients with MRSA should be isolated and hospitalised in isolation, with no other patients.
One kennel nurse should be assigned to caring for the patient, any staff with open wounds should not come into contact with the patient.
Staff contact should be limited to what is essential.
Barrier nursing should be adhered to at all times.
Refer to SOP Barrier nursing and appendix A.

Appendix A - Disinfectants

We use Anigene as our disinfectant.
It is made up daily for kennels and cattery in yellow buckets at a concentration rate of 1:100 (10ml Anigene to 1ltr water).
We have spray bottles with 1:100 concentration in consult rooms, pharmacy, prep room, dental, laboratory, kennels, cattery, radiography, theatres. It is used to clean surfaces between each patient.
We use a concentration on 1:100 to clean all floors, made up daily and disposed of correctly at the end of the day. Yellow bucket and yellow mops: kennels, cattery, waiting room. Green bucket and green mops: prep room, radiography, dental, scrub. Blue bucket and blue mops: both theatres.
For cleaning isolation, we made up Anigene at a concentration of 1:50 in spray bottles, bucket and mop bucket
Red bucket and red mops – Isolation
Mop heads are washed in the washing machine at 60.c after each use.
Windows and glass are cleaned with Flash Anti-bac Plus.

Prepared by VetNurse.co.uk. V1. 26/9/2023

Arlo Guthrie — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 10:06:02 GMT

Revision 2 posted to Veterinary Standard Operating Procedures by Arlo Guthrie on 9/28/2023 10:06:02 AM

Patients with MRSA should be isolated and hospitalised in isolation, with no other patients.
One kennel nurse should be assigned to caring for the patient, any staff with open wounds should not come into contact with the patient.
Staff contact should be limited to what is essential.
Barrier nursing should be adhered to at all times.
Refer to SOP Barrier nursing and appendix A.

Appendix A - Disinfectants

We use Anigene as our disinfectant.
It is made up daily for kennels and cattery in yellow buckets at a concentration rate of 1:100 (10ml Anigene to 1ltr water).
We have spray bottles with 1:100 concentration in consult rooms, pharmacy, prep room, dental, laboratory, kennels, cattery, radiography, theatres. It is used to clean surfaces between each patient.
We use a concentration on 1:100 to clean all floors, made up daily and disposed of correctly at the end of the day. Yellow bucket and yellow mops: kennels, cattery, waiting room. Green bucket and green mops: prep room, radiography, dental, scrub. Blue bucket and blue mops: both theatres.
For cleaning isolation, we made up Anigene at a concentration of 1:50 in spray bottles, bucket and mop bucket
Red bucket and red mops – Isolation
Mop heads are washed in the washing machine at 60.c after each use.
Windows and glass are cleaned with Flash Anti-bac Plus.

Prepared by VetNurse.co.uk. V1. 26/9/2023

Arlo Guthrie — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 10:05:13 GMT

Revision 1 posted to Veterinary Standard Operating Procedures by Arlo Guthrie on 9/28/2023 10:05:13 AM

Patients with MRSA should be isolated and hospitalised in isolation, with no other patients.
One kennel nurse should be assigned to caring for the patient, any staff with open wounds should not come into contact with the patient.
Staff contact should be limited to what is essential.
Barrier nursing should be adhered to at all times.
Refer to SOP Barrier nursing and appendix A.

Appendix A - Disinfectants

We use Anigene as our disinfectant.
It is made up daily for kennels and cattery in yellow buckets at a concentration rate of 1:100 (10ml Anigene to 1ltr water).
We have spray bottles with 1:100 concentration in consult rooms, pharmacy, prep room, dental, laboratory, kennels, cattery, radiography, theatres. It is used to clean surfaces between each patient.
We use a concentration on 1:100 to clean all floors, made up daily and disposed of correctly at the end of the day. Yellow bucket and yellow mops: kennels, cattery, waiting room. Green bucket and green mops: prep room, radiography, dental, scrub. Blue bucket and blue mops: both theatres.
For cleaning isolation, we made up Anigene at a concentration of 1:50 in spray bottles, bucket and mop bucket
Red bucket and red mops – Isolation
Mop heads are washed in the washing machine at 60.c after each use.
Windows and glass are cleaned with Flash Anti-bac Plus.

Prepared by VetNurse.co.uk. V1. 26/9/2023

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