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Farbe: P 249 – Prüfmittelnummer: 126 X

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Blood glucose testing in a multi-patient setting

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Blood glucose testing in a multi-patient setting

When to disinfect

Each time after you have tested a patient’s blood glucose:

 Wipe the area around the test strip guide.

If you find blood on the cloth, also wipe the test strip guide itself and

the measuring window.

If there is blood on the meter:

 Wipe the meter.

If blood has entered the meter:

 Wipe the area around the test strip guide, the lower edge of the

drum compartment cover and the measuring window.

 Allow areas you have wiped time to dry thoroughly.

The meter, test strip guide and measuring window must be thoroughly

cleaned and disinfected at least once a day after use. Carefully check all

recesses, grooves and gaps, as well as the blanking plate.

8.4 Suitable disinfectants

Use only disinfectants of proven effectiveness quoted in official guide-

lines (e.g. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute: Protection of

Laboratory Workers from Occupationally Acquired Infections; Approved

Guideline – Third Edition; CLSI document M29-A3, 2005).

Use alcohol-based surface disinfectants with virucidal activity. Suitable

agents are those, for instance, based on alcohols, aldehyde cleavers and

quaternary compounds*. Use them according to manufacturer’s instruc

tions.

* List of disinfection methods that have been tested in accordance with the “Richtlinien für

die Prüfung chemischer Desinfektionsmittel” [Guidelines for testing chemical disinfectants]

and the “Anforderungskatalog” [Requirements catalogue] of the DGHM (Deutsche Gesell

schaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie e.V.) [= German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology,

Registered Society] based on the DGHM standard methods for testing chemical disinfection

methods, and have been found to be efficacious by the Desinfektionsmittel-Kommission

[= Disinfectants Commission] of the DGHM in collaboration with representatives of the fol

lowing professional associations: DGKH (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Krankenhaushygiene e.V.)

[= German Society for Hospital Hygiene, Registered Society], GHU (Gesellschaft für Hygiene

und Umweltmedizin e.V.) [= German Society for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Regis

tered Society], DVV (Deutsche Vereinigung zur Bekämpfung der Viruskrankheiten e.V.)

[= German Association for the Control of Virus Diseases, Registered Society] and DVG

(Deutsche Veterinärmedizinische Gesellschaft e.V.) [= German Veterinary Society, Registered

Society]