Abstract: Journal of Clinical Nursing & Reports

Abstract:
Patients in clinics, but also in doctor's offices, kindergartens and schools, and on public transport are an ideal reservoir for the growth, proliferation, and transmission of pathogenic organisms. Surfaces in hospitals, e.g. hospital furniture, ECG leads and other cables, push buttons on infusion pumps, control buttons on ventilators, textiles, and implantable biomaterials such as central venous catheters, urological catheters, and endotracheal tubes are increasingly contaminated with multi-resistant microorganisms.