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Chapter 37 - Decontamination of Airway Equipment
from Section 3 - Airway Management: Organisation
- By Subrahmanyan Radhakrishna
Edited by Tim Cook, Michael Seltz Kristensen
Book:

Core Topics in Airway Management

Published online:

03 October 2020

Print publication:

03 December 2020, pp 316-320
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Healthcare-associated infection is a global concern and imposes a huge economic burden on the health industry. Anaesthesiologists must be aware of their role in mitigating infection at the work place. This chapter looks at the potential sources and causes of infection and how an anaesthetic event may result in cross-infection. Good practices including hand-washing, decontamination of equipment and maintenance of work surfaces and anaesthetic machines between cases are described. Terminologies such as single use, single patient use, reusable equipment, decontamination and sterilisation are defined. Management of reusable components of video and direct laryngoscopes and the use, maintenance and transport of flexible optical bronchoscopes are discussed. We hope this chapter would be of use to the career anaesthesiologists and also to trainees preparing for their certificate exams.