Reducing Intraoperative ESKAPE Transmission Through Use of a Personal Hand Hygiene System
Reducing Intraoperative ESKAPE (Enterococcus, S. Aureus, Klebsiella, Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas, and Enterobacter Spp.) Transmission in the Adult Operating Room Via Use of a Personal Hand Hygiene System Optimized by OR PathTrac
Oregon Health and Science University
40 participants
Jan 1, 2022
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The investigators hypothesize that the use of a personal hand hygiene system (SafeHavenTM) by anesthesia providers in the adult operating room, combined with a novel infectious pathogen tracking system (OR PathTrac) will decrease participant exposure to pathologic bacteria in the adult operating room.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria2
- Patients ≥ 18 years of age having surgery in an adult operating suite at the research center involving the following specialties: orthopedics/spine, orthopedics/total joint, gynecology/oncology, colorectal, open vascular, and open urological, general abdominal, acute care, cardiothoracic, and plastic/breast.
- Faculty physicians, resident physicians, or certified registered nurse anesthetists that provide care for adults having surgery at the research center.
Exclusion Criteria9
- Patients with a known infection at the time of surgery.
- Prisoners
- Pregnant Women
- Patients lacking capacity to consent
- Patients with an allergy to a component of hand hygiene solution, such as ethyl alcohol
- Refusal of consent
- Refusal of consent
- Open sores of the hands
- Known skin infection
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Interventions
Anesthesia providers in the intervention arm will be given a personal hand hygiene device, containing 64% ethyl alcohol, which provides actionable real-time performance feedback. The personalized device will be affixed to the provider's waist and will remain there for use throughout the perioperative period. Performance feedback is given to the anesthesia provider in real time with the number of personal hand hygiene events and an hourly hand hygiene rate, which is displayed on the device. Devices will be handed out to participating providers in the preoperative bay and retrieved in the post-anesthesia care unit upon case completion.
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NCT04900298