Hi all,
following on from this year's National Conference it reaffirmed something I have been considering for a while and that is dropping the heat disinfection between patients and opting for a rinse. The proposal would be to then do a heat at the end of the day instead.
With machines being single pass systems I see no risk to the patient with heat disinfection being for the benefit of the machine.
Does anyone's unit already do this or has anyone any thoughts to add - for or against? We have home patients doing sessions almost of 8 hours without problems so we know continued use even without a rinse is not making the machines problematic.
I know the nurses would appreciate the shorter time between patients, the accountants would appreciate spending less on disinfectants and the environmentalists would be happy to see a reduction in water and energy usage.
Ian Wilde