Procedure for maintenance and Repair Personnel in Isolation Rooms:
Isolation serves one of two purposes; either to protect the patient for external hazards, or to protect the staff for the hazards of communicable disease emanating from the patient.
Accordingly, for your own protection as well as protection for the patient, do not enter a room marked “isolation’ until you have checked with the nurse in charge to determine what is being
isolated. The nurse will advise you of the necessary precautions.
Procedure fotr Minimize Access of Aspergillus to implant patients in OR # 10 or OR # 8:
The substantial threat posed by Aspergillus to implant patients requires that special efforts be made to reduce access during heart surgery which is normally conducted on OR # 10 or OR # 8.
Accordingly, Engineering and Facilities maintenance personnel shall initiate and maintain on a semiannual basis replacement program for HEPA filters in OR # 10 and OR # 8 air handling systems. This filter change shall be coordinated with Hospital Housekeeping so that they can clean diffusers and ducts with a phenolic disinfectant at the time of the filter change.
