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| Mammography Regulation and Reimbursement Report |
| May 2008 |
| Digital disinfection: Does your facility put patients at risk? |
| Even if you regularly use a disinfecting solution to clean your digital unit, you may not be disinfecting your machine correctly.
To kill germs that lurk on mammography and breast imaging equipment, disinfectants must sit on the surface of the equipment for a period of time. However, digital mammography manufacturers advise against letting any liquid sit on the units for fear of damaging the expensive equipment.
Not sure of how to proceed or unaware they are not disinfecting the units properly, some facilities may expose patients to infection, says Maureen Spencer, RN, MEd, CIC, a certified infection control and hospital epidemiology specialist, and the infection control manager at New England Baptist Hospital in Boston. |
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