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Hi Glenys
Please see attached information re information for care workers in covid. This document includes information around car air conditioning which might be of some help to your question.
RegardsFelicity Hill
Quality and Compliance ManagerLevel 2 Century Corporate Centre,
62 Norwest Boulevard, Norwest NSW 2153
PO Box 284, Castle Hill NSW 1765
T: 0417048794E: felicity.hill@anglicare.org.au
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Hi All, What is the evidence for car AC on fresh air or recycled? None that I have seen in terms of COVID-19 transmission but happy to be corrected. Glenys Glenys Harringto
Hi All,
What is the evidence for car AC on fresh air or recycled?
None that I have seen in terms of COVID-19 transmission but happy to be corrected.
Glenys
Glenys Harrington
Consultant
Infection Control Consultancy (ICC)
P.O. Box 6385
Melbourne
Australia, 3004
M: +61 404816434
E: infexion@ozemail.com.auHi Cate,
If they drive with ac on fresh air, have their surgical mask on and just roll the window down for the test and back up when finished and go.
I know we have told patients to sit in the back of the car, surgical mask on with the window open, driver side window open and the AC on fresh air (which works okay on normal days, chilly for winter and not tolerable on a hot day). Allows for airflow through the car when driving.
It’s more important that the staff are wearing the correct PPE and distance when undertaking the testing. Plus their exposure time is significantly short.Kind Regards
Marija Juraja |Nurse Unit Manager -CALHN Infection Prevention & Control Unit|
Specialty Medicine 2 RN, GCNS Inf Ctrl, CICP-E)
t: +61 8 7074 2810 (RAH) 8222 7588 (TQEH)| M: 0466 379 821|e:marija.juraja@sa.gov.au |
Adjunct Clinical Lecturer | University of South Australia | Horizon Hospital and Health Service
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“Nurses and midwives: clean care is in your hands”HI everyone
Could you let me know what advice you give to members of the public waiting in their car for a COVID-19 test? Do you advise them to have windows up with A/C on fresh air or recycled air? The temp has been in the 40’s here so A/C is essential.
There seems to be 2 differing opinions. Our policy when transporting patients with active TB apart from PPE is to drive with windows down if possible and A/C on fresh air. I support windows up with COVID-19 but am confused about the A/C on recycled.
Any thoughts on his big pressing issue- ha ha
Regards
Cate Coffey
RN BaAScN MPH&TM Grad Cert Infection Control Nursing
Clinical Nurse ManagerCentral Australia Health Service
Department of Health
Northern Territory GovernmentInfection Prevention and Control Unit
Alice Springs Hospital
PO Box 2234, Alice Springs, NT 0871
cate.coffey@nt.gov.aut. 08 8951 7737
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Hi
This came out from Victoria – not sure if this is of any assistance
Regards
FelicityHi Vanessa
We are not in Victoria so it might be different
Any resident with respiratory symptoms waiting a COVD swab result is under transmission based precautions
All PPE waste is disposed of in general waste as per the CDNA Guidelines (although I have not checked the latest version to see if this has changed)Regards
Robyn[http://www.helpinghand.org.au/hhsig.png]Robyn Russell
Client Safety & Quality Consultant
34 Molesworth Street, North Adelaide SA 5006
T. (08) 8224 7851
M. 0424 167 101
F. (08) 8267 2690
http://www.helpinghand.org.au
[cid:image002.jpg@01D69D72.C9A9CF70]Dear All
We are having a lot of discussion at our Residential Aged Care Facility about waste management in the above scenario.Currently we are of course isolating every resident who has signs/symptoms of COVID. We are also isolating any resident who has been to the ED or admitted into hospital for a non-covid related illness on their return who are asymptomatic – just in case.
What we can’t agree on is how to manage the waste.
The guidelines clearly state, any waste produced by a suspect case MUST be treated as potentially infectious. But it doesn’t say how to manage waste if we are just being over cautious.The problem stems from, lack of storage space of clinical waste waiting for collection in a non-outbreak situation and of course the cost of treating waste as clinical waste when it may not end up being clinical waste once we have confirmation that our returned resident DOES NOT have COVID post receipt of swab results on day 1 and day 5.
Wondering what other Aged Care Facilities are doing when being cautious. Of course, all true clinical waste is disposed of appropriately. My question is about what might not be clinical waste in the interim.
Many thanks to everyone.
Vanessa Watkins
Quality Manager
Donwood Community & Aged Care
Croydon, Victoria
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