🛍️⚠️ Plastic Bags Cause Infections in Healthcare! 🏥🦠
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Dear Healthcare Professional, is your facility using plastic bags to store reusable devices? Most are, and its created problems that often go undetected… bacteria growth that survives, thrives and spreads. Resulting in respiratory infections, pneumonia and even death.
Research
In a California State University laboratory study, in just one hour “viable bacteria were readily recovered from nasal cannulas that had been stored in polyethylene plastic…” Research from multiple sources shows that pathogens survive on plastic longer than any other material. The Journal of Clinical Microbiology states “MRSA & VRE Survived over 90 days on Plastic”
Kaiser Health News, Healthcare Association of New Jersey, PubMed, Infection Control and Epidemiology all have similar statements regarding Plastic bags and HAI ( Healthcare Acquired Infection )
Action
What can be done to fight back?
1. STOP USING PLASTIC BAGS!
2. FOLLOW PROSCRIBED IC PROTOCOLS
3. STORE REUSABLE RESPIRATORY DEVICES IN A BREATHABLE POUCH
WikiPouch® is the perfect way to store all types of reusable items, especially respiratory devices like nebulizers and nasal cannula. The study mentioned above at the California State University found that when using the WikiPouch® instead of plastic bags that in just 1 hour bacteria dropped 84-99%! Yes dropped that much in just 1 hour!
Conclusion
CMS and other government agencies mandate that reusable respiratory devices be stored in a covered environment. We have seen and proven that plastic bags are one of the worst environments to do so. Please stop storing these items in plastic bags. We suggest trying the award winning and proven storage device, WikiPouch®.