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Efficacy of an Ethanol-Based Hand Sanitizer for the Disinfection of Blood Pressure Cuffs
Blood pressure cuffs (BP cuffs) have been implicated in some nosocomial outbreaks. We compared the efficacy of an ethanol-based hand sanitizer (EBHS) with a detergent/disinfectant for the disinfection of BP cuffs. The inner sides of 30 BP cuffs were sampled for bacterial culture. Then, the same area...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6888535/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31703325 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16224342 |
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author | Grandiere Perez, Lucia Ramanantsoa, Céline Beaudron, Aurélie Hoche Delchet, Cyril Penn, Pascale Comacle, Pauline |
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description | Blood pressure cuffs (BP cuffs) have been implicated in some nosocomial outbreaks. We compared the efficacy of an ethanol-based hand sanitizer (EBHS) with a detergent/disinfectant for the disinfection of BP cuffs. The inner sides of 30 BP cuffs were sampled for bacterial culture. Then, the same area was divided into halves. One half was disinfected by a detergent/disinfectant and the other was disinfected by an EBHS. The bacterial count decreased significantly with both disinfectants (p < 0.0001 compared with before disinfection). The bacterial count decrease seemed greater with the EBHS compared with the detergent/disinfectant, but the difference was not significant. Therefore, within the limits of a single application, the EBHS was an efficacious means of BP cuff disinfection. However, the repeated exposure to emollients contained in EBHS may require further studies before validating these results. |
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spelling | pubmed-68885352019-12-09 Efficacy of an Ethanol-Based Hand Sanitizer for the Disinfection of Blood Pressure Cuffs Grandiere Perez, Lucia Ramanantsoa, Céline Beaudron, Aurélie Hoche Delchet, Cyril Penn, Pascale Comacle, Pauline Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Blood pressure cuffs (BP cuffs) have been implicated in some nosocomial outbreaks. We compared the efficacy of an ethanol-based hand sanitizer (EBHS) with a detergent/disinfectant for the disinfection of BP cuffs. The inner sides of 30 BP cuffs were sampled for bacterial culture. Then, the same area was divided into halves. One half was disinfected by a detergent/disinfectant and the other was disinfected by an EBHS. The bacterial count decreased significantly with both disinfectants (p < 0.0001 compared with before disinfection). The bacterial count decrease seemed greater with the EBHS compared with the detergent/disinfectant, but the difference was not significant. Therefore, within the limits of a single application, the EBHS was an efficacious means of BP cuff disinfection. However, the repeated exposure to emollients contained in EBHS may require further studies before validating these results. MDPI 2019-11-07 2019-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6888535/ /pubmed/31703325 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16224342 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Grandiere Perez, Lucia Ramanantsoa, Céline Beaudron, Aurélie Hoche Delchet, Cyril Penn, Pascale Comacle, Pauline Efficacy of an Ethanol-Based Hand Sanitizer for the Disinfection of Blood Pressure Cuffs |
title | Efficacy of an Ethanol-Based Hand Sanitizer for the Disinfection of Blood Pressure Cuffs |
title_full | Efficacy of an Ethanol-Based Hand Sanitizer for the Disinfection of Blood Pressure Cuffs |
title_fullStr | Efficacy of an Ethanol-Based Hand Sanitizer for the Disinfection of Blood Pressure Cuffs |
title_full_unstemmed | Efficacy of an Ethanol-Based Hand Sanitizer for the Disinfection of Blood Pressure Cuffs |
title_short | Efficacy of an Ethanol-Based Hand Sanitizer for the Disinfection of Blood Pressure Cuffs |
title_sort | efficacy of an ethanol-based hand sanitizer for the disinfection of blood pressure cuffs |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6888535/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31703325 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16224342 |
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