Muckamore Abbey Hospital, Antrim - Regulation and Quality ...

9.0 Patient Equipment
STANDARD 5.0
PATIENT EQUIPMENT
Cleanliness and state of repair of general patient equipment.
Patient Equipment
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As the patients in this ward are generally mobile and physically well
there is no requirement for a large supply of patient equipment. All
patient equipment is held in a small clinical room. The ward has
recently received a resuscitation bag and all the equipment in the bag
was in date and within sterile packaging. However the old resuscitation
tray was still present and contained Magills forceps and a laryngoscope
blade which had been removed from the sterile packaging. An old
ambu bag in an open plastic bag was grubby and stained.
Picture 4: Old cluttered resuscitation tray
The tray should be removed as it is no longer required and may be
used by staff during an emergency situation.
There were three suction machines, one was an old model which sits
on the floor and requires the containers to be cleaned manually. Staff
should review the need for three machines. The underside frame of
the drugs and dressing trolley were dirty and the mask on the portable
nebulizer was stained. The mask and tubing should be single use if
used for more than one patient or cleaned and changed in accordance
with manufactures guidelines.
Recommendations
8 The trust and individual staff have a collective responsibility
to ensure that patient equipment is clean, in a good state of
repair and changed in line with manufactures guidelines.
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