Abstract

Background: King Abdulaziz Medical City -KAMC is tertiary hospital in Riyadh, with a bed capacity of 1501. Commenced implementation of Automated Dispensing Cabinets (ADCs) technology. However, despite variety of benefits of ADCs, as is the case with many medical equipment handled by multiple users in the daily workflow it can be a risk for transmission of pathogens from user to user or from user to patient. Furthermore, Additional considerations regarding cleaning ADCs is essential during COVID-19 pandemic. This guidance preformed to provide best practice advice on defining responsibilities and standardize effective cleaning and disinfection ADC machine.

Method: we start with cleaning after that do disinfection using appropriate substance for remove all organic substance to make the pathogen capacity a smaller amount were infection transmission impossible.

Result: provide a standardized guideless for effective cleaning process. As will implement measurements tool to meantime infection control.

Conclusion: Many hospital staff use the same medical equipment every day in their work, as it may become more likely that infection can be transmitted from staff to staff or from staff to patient. Moreover, to avoid many kinds of contamination and infections we having such a cleaning guideline is essential.

Keywords: Cleaning; Cabinets; Automated Dispensing; Pathogens

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Citation

Citation: Saleh Alanazi., et al. “Best Way of Standardize Cleaning of Automated Dispensing Cabinets to Prevent Infections". Acta Scientific Nutritional Health 6.6 (2022): 86-90.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2022 Saleh Alanazi., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.