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Originally Posted by jambutty

There is a simple answer to blood pressure cuffs.

Wrap a couple of layers of cling film around the arm first. Cling film is cheap and sterile and now comes in easy use dispensers.

But it isn’t only hospitals. Doctors’ surgeries also take patients’ blood pressure, as do Paramedics once they get you in the ambulance.

It’s a fat load of use having a sterile, infection free hospital if you pick up a bug in the ambulance whilst being taken there.

The stretcher trolley or chair isn’t swabbed down unless it has been soiled in some way by a patient. The same blanket is used again and again during the day unless it got soiled.

JB I can say that the sheets and blankets are now used once and changed after each patient as we have to do this to maintain infection control that have been put in place to help combat the spread of MRSA. You can't use cling film as it will give a false reading because it will be putting pressure over the artery your using.