Now we're going to succinctly talk about body fluid cleanup, from a potential bio-hazard.
Now, when we do this, I'll tell you, one of the best things you can do actually,
is have your scene set up first.
I mean making sure you have extra pair of gloves already laid out,
having your disposable wipes,
having your premixed 1 to 10 household bleach solution,
One part bleach to ten parts water, which is suggested by the Centers for Disease Control
for a disinfecting household solution,
if you don't have a commercial virucidal, or another disinfecting solution.
The goal here, now, is to obviously disinfect the surface,
this could be applied to tools or other inanimate objects as well,
but in this case it's a table top.
Somebody had a bloody nose, a child or an adult,
they bled on the table, and now we're coming in later to disinfect this.
In the meantime, if you notice there's a blood-spill, and you can't disinfect right away,
block off the area so that other people don't come in contact with it,
and become infected as well, or at least exposed.
So first is to actually clean up as much of the gross contaminate as possible.
We're gonna do this by wiping the bulk of the contaminate off the table.
If you can have someone assist you by bringing the bag in,
we're going to dispose of the contaminate in a bio-haz bag,
being careful not to cross-contaminate.
Now, if we're working with a clean bottle,
and we've just wiped up contaminate,
I mean I can get this contamination on these gloves pretty easily.
Let's remove the first contaminated gloves without snapping or popping the gloves,
with a glove-on-glove, skin-on-skin, removal procedure.
Now we're gonna be careful,
and actually drop those into the bio-haz bag as well.
Now clean on clean, we place our second pair of gloves.
One side-note though, just from experience,
is the more sweaty your hands get, the harder it is to put on secondary pairs of gloves,
so if you're purchasing gloves, a light powdered glove is not a bad idea,
or a powder free that's just a good quality glove.
Now we can take our disinfecting solution,
spray down the contaminate.
Be careful not to spray it hard,
because if you do, it can glance off and shoot the contaminates off the surface that you're working on,
and now we've got another cross-contamination issue, and we're gonna continue to have to clean up.
Make sure that you spray in a circumference enough that you're really decontaminating
the greater part of this surface.
Now we're gonna take another disposable wipe,
and now we're going to clean the second phase, and get the rest of the existing contaminate off the surface.
And we're going to dispose of that in a bio-haz bag.
Again, keeping dirty-dirty and clean-clean, we're gonna dispose of those in the bio-haz bag,
and this should be our last time that we actually have to put on gloves,
even though they're clean, and ideally the disinfecting bottle is clean,
we really want to break this chain of infection through putting a personal
protective equipment piece between us and the potential pathogen.
Now we're going to mist-spray a saturation of the disinfecting solution.
If it is made out of bleach solution, be careful it doesn't get on other products that have color,
it will bleach those products.
Maybe it's a carpet, or other things.
And now we're going to put this stuff away properly,
but we're going to let this wet surface literally dry on its' own,
which is the prescribed amount of time for the chemical to be in contact with the hazard,
or potential hazard, the bio-hazard,
in order for it to completely have its' kill time.