Bacterial Contamination of the Anesthesia Workplace and

Anesthesia and analgesia · May 2016

Comparative Study Observational Study

Bacterial Contamination of the Anesthesia Workplace and Efficiency of Routine Cleaning Procedures: A Prospective Cohort Study.

In this prospective cohort study, 200 decontamination (cleaning and disinfection) procedures of the anesthesia workplace either by anesthesia nurses or by specially trained housekeeping staff were monitored. Time used by housekeeping staff was shorter (1.2 ± 0.1 vs 2.6 ± 0.2 minutes on average, data are mean ± SEM; P < 0.0001) with less visible marker spots (14.4 ± 0.68 [55%] vs 17.3 ± 0.75 [66.7%] on average, data are mean ± SEM; P = 0.0041), and the bacterial load showed a decrease (≅67%, P < 0.0001) compared with anesthesia nurses. Specially trained housekeeping staff outperformed anesthesia nurses in cleaning the anesthesia workplace. Specific training for anesthesia workplace cleaning is supported by these findings.

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- Ulrich Goebel, Nicole Gebele, Winfried Ebner, Markus Dettenkofer, Hartmut Bürkle, Dieter Hauschke, and Sebastian Schulz-Stübner.
- From the *Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; †Institut für Umweltmedizin und Krankenhaushygiene am Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; ‡Institut für Krankenhaushygiene & Infektionsprävention, Gesundheitsverbund Landkreis Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany; §Institute of Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; and ‖Deutsches Beratungszentrum für Hygiene (BZH GmbH), Freiburg, Germany.
- Anesth. Analg. 2016 May 1; 122 (5): 1444-7.
AbstractIn this prospective cohort study, 200 decontamination (cleaning and disinfection) procedures of the anesthesia workplace either by anesthesia nurses or by specially trained housekeeping staff were monitored. Time used by housekeeping staff was shorter (1.2 ± 0.1 vs 2.6 ± 0.2 minutes on average, data are mean ± SEM; P < 0.0001) with less visible marker spots (14.4 ± 0.68 [55%] vs 17.3 ± 0.75 [66.7%] on average, data are mean ± SEM; P = 0.0041), and the bacterial load showed a decrease (≅67%, P < 0.0001) compared with anesthesia nurses. Specially trained housekeeping staff outperformed anesthesia nurses in cleaning the anesthesia workplace. Specific training for anesthesia workplace cleaning is supported by these findings.

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