Key bullet points on infection control from a member of our advisory team, Michelle Strange, RDH. Michelle also discussed infection control in-depth during our webinar.
- Find your instructions for use for your equipment
- Find IFUs for your cleaning products
- Break our your OSHA, Standard Operating Procedures, and Hazard communications manuals
- Use this time to update and confirm you are doing everything to break the chain of infection
- Are you running quality assurance for your instrument processing?
- If seeing emergency patients, be sure to use a rubber dam and high volume evacuation.
- Remove unnecessary items from your waiting area and operatory
- Open doors if seeing emergency patients to limit how many surfaces they touch from entering building to sitting in the chair.
- Use barrier wraps where you can especially with your technology that will be difficult to clean and disinfect.
- Please confirm your disinfectant is used for this pandemic with the EPA link above