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Ice machines--an audit of their use in clinical practice
1Birmingham Public Health Laboratory, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Devon House, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham B9 5SS. kingde@heartsol.wmids.nhs.uk
Communicable Disease and Public Health
|July 27, 2001
Abstract:
Ice is used in clinical settings for a variety of reasons and ice making machines have been implicated in outbreaks of nosocomial infection. An audit was undertaken to investigate the routine local and strategic management and maintenance of ice machines in clinical settings. The results highlighted the need to implement local policies for the purchase, use and maintenance of such machines.