In our blood collection facility, we have one common blood pressure cuff for multiple donors.

How often do you clean your blood pressure cuffs? Our infectious control specialist is requesting that we clean and disinfect after each use.

This seems a little extensive since these are "healthy" volunteer donors and not patients.

What is everyone else doing?

thanks

Stephanie

I've seen people do this. Your disinfecting wipes should be fine for that without too much pain.  I've also seen people do it at the end of the day, so depending on how many cuffs/ donors you have it would be every few donors.
Maybe you could go with a daily wipe down unless there is a visible rash or open wound on the cuff??
 

Our infection control specialist said we must use the bleach disinfecting wipes and clean our blood pressure instrument between each patient.

I would be hesitant to use bleach.  Check manufacturers insert, may damage the cuff, could well irrate donor skin and heaven forbid there may be residue that damages the donors clothes!

They sure don't do that in doctor's offices.  We found that the QC we did on our cuffs was way beyond what the did up on the floors.  Maybe you should redirect them onto that one so they forget about you

In the Lab here, a few months ago we started getting these bleach-wipe thingies left by infection control or housekeeping on our benches.  Since then we have found that many manufacturers of various things like analyzers and whatnot recommend NOT using anything bleachy for cleaning their particular devices.  So I would agree that you must be very careful!  Bleach is especailly hard on many plastics.

Scott