Lesson 14 · Cleaning, Decontamination and Disinfection
Soil weakens every disinfectant, and a high-level solution can fail its strength test before its reuse life ends.
In this lesson
Name the common low-, intermediate- and high-level disinfectants with their uses and limits, explain why organic material weakens all of them, and run high-level disinfection the way the manual describes: by machine when you can, with a minimum effective concentration (MEC) test before each use and a record that traces each item to its patient.
- From quats to peracetic acidShort read · 4 min
- Check yourself9 questions
- Running high-level disinfection: machines, tests and recordsShort read · 4 min
- Put it to work8 questions
About 16 min · 2 short reads · 17 questions