Testing With Blood Sample - NURSE ROSIE RealTime Manual Del Propietário

TESTING WITH BLOOD SAMPLE

WARNING: Potential Biohazard!
Healthcare professionals using this system on multiple patients should
follow the infection control procedure approved by their facility. All
products or objects which come in contact with human blood, even after
cleaning, should be handled as if capable of transmitting viral diseases.
Sharing the lancing device and lancets may increase the risk of
contracting infectious diseases. Please follow the infection control
procedure of lancing device approved by your facility.
To reduce the chance of infection:
• Always wear gloves and follow your facility's biohazard control policy
and procedures when performing tests involving patient blood samples.
• Wear a new pair of clean gloves before testing each patient. Change
gloves between patients.
• Wear protective glasses and/or other protective clothing if necessary.
• Never share a lancet or the lancing device.
• Only auto-disabling, single use lancing devices may be used with this
device.
• Avoid getting hand lotion, oils, dirt, or debris in or on the lancets and
the lancing device.
We recommend you perform disinfection procedures between each
patient. Please refer to the section Cleaning and Disinfection Procedures
for complete instructions. After disinfection, used gloves should be
removed and hands washed before proceeding to the next patient.
Please refer to the following practice guidelines for more information
about the correct procedure:
• Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL) found
at http://www.cdc.gov/biosafety/publications/bmbl5/
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