Cleaning and decontamination of care equipment is essential to reduce the spread of infection when infection is confirmed/suspected.

When dealing with the equipment used in the resident’s isolation room staff should:

• use single use or dedicated reusable care equipment, for example commodes, for the resident in isolation where possible

• clean and decontaminate all non-invasive, reusable,  care equipment after each use and prior to removal from the resident’s room

 

Read the Safe management of non-invasive, reusable shared care equipment literature review to find out more about why we do things this way for patient care equipment for TBPs.