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COVID-19 Procedure: Disinfection Procedures for Infectious Fabrics of Suspected or Confirmed Patients

COVID-19 Procedure: Disinfection Procedures for Infectious Fabrics of Suspected or Confirmed Patients

Follow this COVID-19 procedure to safely disinfect the fabrics of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients. This template can be run as a checklist from within Process Street or it can be printed out and displayed. Page 12.
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COVID-19 Procedure: Disinfection Procedures for Infectious Fabrics of Suspected or Confirmed Patients:
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Type of infectious fabric:
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Record type of infectious fabric
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Collection methods:
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Pack the fabrics into a disposable water-soluble plastic bag
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Seal the bag with matching cable ties
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Pack this bag into another plastic bag
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Seal the bag with cable ties in a goose neck fashion
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Pack the plastic bag into a yellow fabric bag
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Seal the bag with cable ties
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Attach a special infection label and the department name
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Send the bag to the laundry room
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Storage and washing:
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Separate COVID-19 fabrics from other infectious fabrics
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Wash COVID-19 fabrics in dedicated washing machine
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Disinfection of transport tools:
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Ensure best practice principles are followed
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COVID-19 Procedure: Disinfection Procedures for Infectious Fabrics of Suspected or Confirmed Patients:

COVID-19 Procedure: Disinfection Procedures for Infectious Fabrics of Suspected or Confirmed Patients

This process template is part of our COVID-19 Procedures pack. 

It is built as a reproduction of the procedures outlined in the Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment (2020) produced by The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine (FAHZU). 

FAHZU had great success in combatting the novel Coronavirus COVID-19 and this handbook outlines best-practices, procedures, and useful charts for hospitals and medical centers to practically employ. 

The items contained within the handbook were compiled according to clinical experience. 

You can edit this process template to adapt it to the specific needs of your institution. When you come to follow the procedure, you can run this template as a checklist. You can add form fields throughout the checklist to gather information. You can connect your Process Street account with other platforms via automation to automatically store or utilize any data entered into your checklists. 

Alternatively, you can choose to print this checklist out to display on the walls of the important areas where it will need to be followed. Selecting to print the checklist will reformat it for greater offline readability. 

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You can find the full handbook embedded below.

Process Street is not a medical institution and the items contained in this process template are illustrative and not intended to be understood as medical advice. Please refer to the attached PDF document for any and all medical or operational recommendations. 

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Type of infectious fabric:

Record type of infectious fabric



Collection methods:

Pack the fabrics into a disposable water-soluble plastic bag

Seal the bag with matching cable ties

Pack this bag into another plastic bag

Seal the bag with cable ties in a goose neck fashion

Figure 1: Sealing Method for Clinical Waste Bags (Source: https://www.epd.gov.hk/epd/clinicalwaste/en/smallproducer_duty_segregation.html)

Pack the plastic bag into a yellow fabric bag

Seal the bag with cable ties

Attach a special infection label and the department name

Send the bag to the laundry room

Storage and washing:

Separate COVID-19 fabrics from other infectious fabrics

Infectious fabrics should be separated from other infectious fabrics (non-COVID-19) and
washed in a dedicated washing machine.

Wash COVID-19 fabrics in dedicated washing machine

Wash and disinfect these fabrics with chlorine-containing disinfectant at 90 °c for at least
30 minutes.

Disinfection of transport tools:

Ensure best practice principles are followed

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    Special transport tools should be used specifically for transporting infectious fabrics
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    The tools shall be disinfected immediately each time after being used for transporting infectious fabrics
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    The transport tools should be wiped with chlorine-containing disinfectant (with 1000 mg/L active chlorine). Leave disinfectant for 30 minutes before wiping the tools clean with clean water

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