Bacterial
Infection Among Radiation Therapy Department
Ahmad
Nono / anono@bellarmine.edu / Faculty Advisor: Karen
Golemboski
The
healthcare sector faces the problem of equipment contamination, and the
situation has become a real issue in the contemporary setting. The healthcare
personnel have to follow all the procedures that are provided from the
department to keep all the patients safe. The goal of this experiment to make a
standard procedure to clean the equipment, since there are no standards among
hospitals. Many hospital pieces of equipment still remain contaminated with
microorganisms. Since the instruments are shared among different patients with
different health conditions, there is a high probability of transmission of
nosocomial infections and other hospital-acquired diseases. Meanwhile, the
system aspires to provide quality healthcare and the most affordable costs.
This study will compare cleaning protocols for equipment used in the radiation
therapy department. One way the healthcare system has responded to the problem
of possible contamination is by using water to clean the equipment, which has
made the situation worse since most of the patients are visiting this department
are immunosuppressed, and the bacteria would not be decontaminated. Therefore,
they are still facing the challenge of possible contamination and pathogen
transfer through equipment. In this experiment, some selective bacteria will be
inoculated onto the bite block. Survival of bacteria after cleaning with
deionized water and hydrogen peroxide will be compared.
