Effectiveness of The Bicinchoninic Acid Method in Patient Unit Cleaning in Intensive Care

Abstract

Objective; This study was conducted to identify the effectiveness of the Bicinchoninic Acid/(BCA) method applied for cleaning the medical equipment of the patients with infections or colonization requiring strict contact isolation after discharge and to determine whether repeated cleaning was required for effective cleaning. Methods; In this study, BCA and microbiology samples were taken before and after the cleaning, and the results were compared. Results;When post-cleaning data were compared, no statistical difference was found. It was determined that repeated cleaning was not required as long as the cleaning was controlled by objective methods. When the data of the areas stained with fluorescent gel before and after the first cleaning were compared, it was observed that there was a statistical difference. Conclusions;According to the results of the study, it was concluded that BCA was an effective method that could be used to evaluate the cleaning applied to the infected patient unit. It is thought that cleaning only areas that are considered to be contaminated after evaluating the cleaning with an effective method will prevent contamination due to cleaning and will provide more positive results in terms of time, labor, and cost. This study is registered to ClinicalTrials.gov with the number ID:NCT04212130