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Oh, and we didn’t ‘install’ them. Only portable fans are allowed. Try and regulate use to clinically appropriate only, not just run them all the time.
Cheers
Michael
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Hi Jane
We changed our policy a couple of years ago to state that only bladeless fans could be used in clinical areas. We had so many problems with dust on blades, so we got rid of the blades!
Staff report the bladeless fans are just as good for cooling patients, and even ICU are happy with them. More expensive to purchase initially, but better than no fans at all, so the clinicians say.
I’m not going to get into the argument about dispersal of bugs via fan air currents in multi-bedded rooms and ICU…. sometimes I think you just need to put the individual patient first for a change. They may be fighting words, I know, but sometimes some air cooling is really what a patient needs in the short term.
My opinion, anyway.
Cheers
Michael
Michael Wishart, CICP-E
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Dear Brains Trust,
Fans!!!!!, could I please ask what the general consensus is on the use of Fans in clinical environment, in particularly in the ICU setting.
We didn’t install them in our new build for all the IPC reasons of spreading bugs, dust collectors etc. however I have been asked today if we could install them because the benefits to the patient is ‘huge’?! My immediate response is NO but would like to know what others are doing.
Many thanks
Jayne O’Connor RN ,BSc.,Inf.Cont
IPC Co-Ordinator
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