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• A dirty / contaminated clinical environment is one of the factors that’s contributes to HCAIs
Decontamination is a combination of processes:
• Cleaning
• Disinfection
• and/or sterilisation
• This destroys or removes micro-organisms and makes equipment safe to re-use
• Appropriate cleaning of equipment / environment with the correct cleaning / disinfection products
• Take special precautions in high risk areas and with high risk patients