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Interesting observations. Some obvious consequences: Hospital visitors and staff should never use patient toilets, ever. Patients should use their own toilet
by OliverJones 4y ago
Interesting observations. Some obvious consequences:
Hospital visitors and staff should never use patient toilets, ever.
Patients should use their own toilets only.
Staff gets clean scrubs after any visit to a toilet, helping a patient or on their own behalf. Yeah, sterile workers (surgery, etc) have to scrub in again after a bathroom break.
Clean patient bathrooms, including toilets, often, especially if infectious disease is present.
Design facilities to minimize the need to share bathrooms.
"Employees must wash hands before returning to work."
For what it's worth, hospitals already try to do this stuff.
- nextos 4y agoSome Japanese toilets have a system to create negative pressure so that no aerosols escape even when the lid is down. AFAIK, shower heads are also problematic. I recall NHS conducted a study and they concluded many vulnerable patients get infected by aerosols during showering. Shower heads that are not cleaned periodically get very nasty biofilm buildup inside the head. I think that as a consequence some NHS trusts switched to some showerheads that get cleaned and rotated periodically.
- Spooky23 4y agoHospitals make a big show of a few things. Any hospital I’ve been to is filthy in most departments as they slash and burn overheads like aides and cleaning staff. Half the people at the Starbucks across the street from a hospital are in scrubs.