Patient shoe covers: transferring bacteria from the floor onto surgical bedsheets

Justin Galvin; Ahmad Almatroudi; Karen Vickery; Anand Deva; Lillian Kelly Oliveira Lopes; Dayane de Melo Costa; Honghua Hu

doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2016.03.020

Patient shoe covers: transferring bacteria from the floor onto surgical bedsheets

Justin Galvin, Ahmad Almatroudi, Karen Vickery, Anand Deva, Lillian Kelly Oliveira Lopes, Dayane de Melo Costa, Honghua Hu^*

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Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences

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Abstract

Forty disposable medical shoe covers were briefly exposed to the surgical floor and were found contaminated by a large number of bacteria. This study also demonstrated live bacteria, including pathogens attached to contaminated shoe covers, can be subsequently transferred to surgical bedsheets. We suggest an infection control policy should be considered to prevent patients returning to their bed with contaminated disposable shoe covers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1417-1419
Number of pages	3
Journal	American Journal of Infection Control
Volume	44
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2016.03.020
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2016

Keywords

shoe covers
bedsheet
bacteria
transfer
infection control
surgical site infections

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