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The cleaning and disinfection by heat of bedpans in automatic and semi-automatic machines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

A. B. M. G. Mostafa  and
K. F. Chackett
A. B. M. G. Mostafa
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Nuclear Medicine, Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham B18 7QH
K. F. Chackett
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Nuclear Medicine, Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham B18 7QH
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This work is concerned with the cleaning and disinfection by heat of stainless-steel and polypropylene bedpans, which had been soiled with either a biological contaminant, human serum albumin (HSA) labelled with technetium-99m 99m(Tc), or a bacteriological contaminant, streptococcus faecalis mixed with Tc-labelled HSA. Results of cleaning and disinfection achieved with a Test Machine and those achieved by procedures adopted in eight different wards of a general hospital are reported. Bedpan washers installed in wards were found to be less efficient than the Test Machine, at least partly because of inadequate maintenance. Stainless-steel and polypropylene bedpans gave essentially the same results.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 76 , Issue 3 , June 1976 , pp. 341 - 348
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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