Alcohol Disinfection wipes

[cmorrison2@anglicaresq.org.au]

Good afternoon,

I am seeking information on alcohol disinfection wipes and was wondering if anyone can recommend any information on this form of ‘disinfection.’ I understand that sodium hypochlorite is the recommended disinfectant for impregnated wipes but I’ve noticed many of the RACFs I visit have ‘isowipes’ or alcohol wipes. Does anyone have any experience with these?

Thank you in advance,

Kind regards,

Chris

Christine Morrison
Practice Facilitator – Infection Control
Practice Facilitation Team
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[Michael Wishart]

Hi Chris

I’m just going to note that alcohol is quite a good instantaneous disinfectant, but has no residual action. And little to no action against spores, whereas sodium hypochlorite at a strength of at least 1000 parts per million available chlorine is active against sp[ores..

It is also very important to note that whilst both of these chemicals can disinfect surfaces, they are not cleaners, and will not remove or reduce soils. Therefore, if you are using them for surface disinfection, you must use a two-step strategy where you clean the surface first with a detergent, then disinfect the surface with the disinfectant, allowing appropriate contact time for the disinfectant to work.

If you are looking at a simple way to clean and disinfection, you can look at appropriate detergent disinfectant combination wipes, but make sure they have TGA approval for any claims made, and have validation of the disinfection component when used as a wipe.

There are good resources about now for environmental cleaning in healthcare, and SA Health has recently released their latest Cleaning Standard: Cleaning Standards (sahealth.sa.gov.au)

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Michael

Michael Wishart | Infection Control Coordinator, CICP-E

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Good afternoon,

I am seeking information on alcohol disinfection wipes and was wondering if anyone can recommend any information on this form of ‘disinfection.’ I understand that sodium hypochlorite is the recommended disinfectant for impregnated wipes but I’ve noticed many of the RACFs I visit have ‘isowipes’ or alcohol wipes. Does anyone have any experience with these?

Thank you in advance,

Kind regards,

Chris

Christine Morrison
Practice Facilitator – Infection Control
Practice Facilitation Team
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Level 3, Webber House,
439 Ann St, Brisbane Q 4000
PO Box 10556, Brisbane Adelaide St Q 4000

M: 0499526913
E: cmorrison2@anglicaresq.org.au
E: pft@anglicaresq.org.au
W: anglicaresq.org.au

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