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What protocols or safeguards do you implement if bed bugs are found on a patient or their belongings while on the treatment table or near equipment?
What precautions can be taken to limit infestation of the department?
Do you implement a treatment delay and if so how do you decide when to resume?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Typically once a bedbug is identified, the patient is brought directly into our inpatient holding bay so that there is limited time to contaminate common areas of the department. Therapists do utilize contact precautions including knee high shoe covers. We then have our hospital facilities team trea...
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Our protocol is very close to Dr. @Vijay Kudithipudi's.
We have an isolation holding area with a direct outside door close to the vault where identified patients are held until treatment.
Patients with known bed bug infestations are asked to shower before they come to treatment and wear clea...