4.5 Disinfection
WARNING:
Dangerous Products - The use of disinfectants is restricted to
authorized personnel.
WARNING:
Dangerous Products, change on irritate your skin - You should wear
suitable protective clothing because the disinfectants could irritate your skin. For
this purpose you should also take note of the product information of the solutions
concerned.
All parts of the wheelchair can be treated by scrubbing with a disinfectant.
All steps taken to disinfect rehabilitation equipment, their components or other accessory
parts are to be recorded in a disinfection report containing a minimum of the following
information (with product documentation appended):
Date of the
disinfection
Reason Specification Substance and
concentration
Signature
Table 5: Example of a disinfection book
Abbreviations used in column 2 (reason):
V = Suspected infection IF = Infection case W = Repetition I = Inspection
For a blank sheet of a disinfection book see § 9.
The recommended disinfectants for scrubbing (based on the list provided by the Robert
Koch Institute, RKI) are standing in the table below. The current state of the disinfectants
included in the RKI list can be obtained from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) (homepage:
www.rki.de).
Active substance
Product name Laundry
disinfection
Surface
disinfection
(scrubbing-
/wiping
disinfection)
Disinfection of excretions
1 part sputum or stools + 2 parts
% Hr. % Hr. % Hr. % Hr. % Hr.
Phenol or phenol
derivative
Amocid 1 12 5 6 5 4 5 6 5 2 A Lysoform
Gevisol 0,5 12 5 4 5 4 5 6 5 2 A Schülke & Mayr
Helipur 6 4 6 4 6 6 6 2 A B. Braun
m-cresylic soap
solution (DAB
6)
1 12 5 4 A
Phenol 1 12 3 2 A
Chlorine, organic
or inorganic
substances with
active chlorine
Chloramin-T
DAB 9
1,5 12 2,5 2 5 4 A
