Blood Spill Management: - Evacuate The Area. - Place The Caution Board
Evacuate the area and place caution boards. Wear PPEs and promptly cover any blood spill with absorbent materials like tissue or cloth. Completely cover the spill for 20 minutes with a 1% sodium hypochlorite solution. Use forceps or tongs to collect soiled materials and place in a yellow bag without touching by hand. Clean the area with disinfectant and a designated mop before washing hands and filing an incident report to inform ICN.
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Blood Spill Management: - Evacuate The Area. - Place The Caution Board
Evacuate the area and place caution boards. Wear PPEs and promptly cover any blood spill with absorbent materials like tissue or cloth. Completely cover the spill for 20 minutes with a 1% sodium hypochlorite solution. Use forceps or tongs to collect soiled materials and place in a yellow bag without touching by hand. Clean the area with disinfectant and a designated mop before washing hands and filing an incident report to inform ICN.
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Blood spill management
• Evacuate the area.
• Place the caution board. • Wear PPE’s • Cover the spill promptly with absorbent material like tissue paper or cotton cloth. Completely cover the spillage with sodium hypochlorite solution 1% should be used for 20 min. • Do not touch the soiled material by hand. Either use forceps/ tongs from the spill kit. • Collect all the soiled material with help of tong to yellow bag. • Clean the area with disinfectant • Clean area with mop (use mop that is used to clean only spills).Clean & dry the mop. • Wash and dry your hands. • Fill the incident form. • Inform ICN.