Disinfection of Non-Critical Equipment: We Can Do Better

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Congratulations to our two college research students, Emmy Bowe (University of Richmond) and Tara Srivastava (University of Virginia) for their recent publication on disinfection of non-critical equipment, published in American Journal of Infection Control and accessible here.

We can learn a lot about ourselves by asking simple questions. We simply do not perform disinfection of non-critical equipment with fidelity. Barriers are several, as reported in our paper.

Simple steps to improve practice include improved point of care cleaning information, improved access to cleaning supplies and increased instrument storage space. 

Small interventions will likely pay disinfection dividends.