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In this video we’re going to talk about how to properly decontaminate your equipment in between students use. First of all, you want to make sure that your equipment is in proper working. Inspect your mannequins for any cracks especially around the face area. If there are cracks around the lips and the face and the chin on the actual mannequin face, this could pose a hazard to your students. It could actually pinch them when they’re trying to give a breath, could pinch their lips and cause injury, they could also hold bacteria and things like that in between cracks, so if your mannequin is not in good shape, we need to dispose of that equipment and make sure they have equipment that is in good proper working order. The other thing we need to remember is to decontaminate mannequins appropriately. We need a good type of solution that’s going to work to do that. The best solution is really just common ordinary household bleach. And what we do is we make a solution by adding one part bleach to nine parts water. So we add one part bleach and nine parts water that makes a whole of 10 parts in other words what the CDC calls a one to 10 solution. One part bleach in nine parts water that will properly disinfect and take care of most of the things that we’re concerned about like the blood borne pathogens and things like that that would be our concern when doing actual compressions and doing breaths on a mannequin. So that solution when you have that the way to disinfect the mannequin properly is to spray down the mannequin and then wipe the mannequin vigorously. Now in this mannequin we have a lung system that actually has the lung and the face shield all in one so in this scenario instead of actually spraying down the mouth in between each student, this time we actually just replace the whole lung and face shield and that way we don’t have to actually spray it down every time. But what if you don’t have that type of a system, I’m going to take this out and you have the type of mannequin that does need to be cleaned each time, let me show you what we’re going to do. We would spray it down while spray down the chest wall where the hands and things were and then what we would do is we would take a cloth and you’re going to wipe it down vigorously. The vigorous wiping actually helps it kill the germs it really helps as well to take care of any of those infections that would be concerned about. So wiping it down vigorously like this and make sure to get it all clean so there’s no dampness here in the mannequin left. Wiping around the mouth especially around the nose area anywhere the person’s face may have been. I see I spilled some on my desk here but that’s alright we can wipe that up too and I have plenty of a material to do that so that’s the idea we’re cleaning it up while… there we are. All right so now I have the mannequin wiped down well and one thing that’s good to do there if you have it wiped down well is mist it lightly and just go ahead and let that air dry now before the next student is ready to go ahead and use this mannequin. That way it will kill all the germs that could be there. Now what if you have other equipment besides mannequins, such as a rescue mask. A rescue mask or a pocket mask as its otherwise known is something that we use when we’re doing the healthcare provider level training. In this situation they have a one way valve, the one way valve needs to be removed and thrown out, if you’re reusing a real one way valve in your classroom we would not ruse those for other students. Most classrooms have practice one way valves that are cleanable. So we’re going to take that and remove that but then that pocket mask or rescue mask the way to properly disinfect and clean that is we’re going to take and put that in a nice soapy solution, good kind of soak, we’re going to do the same idea where it’s in the soap and we’re vigorously rubbing, vigorously cleaning out the mask and all the different areas and then what we would do with that is after we’ve cleaned it in that soapy solution we would rinse that off and then soak that in the bleach solution for at least ten minutes. And then after that’s done we’re taking it out of the bleach solution we would let that air dry again and that is the proper way to disinfect that rescue mask and other equipment.
Equipment Decontamination