The cost of disposable material and hygiene procedures was evaluated by comparison with their cost in the pre-outbreak period.
Seemingly fundamental aspects of operations will likely be challenged: Frumkin points out that modern antiseptic practice is based on the use of disposable materials (e.g. syringes, intravenous solution bags, rubbing alcohol, sterile wrapping), which are petroleum-based [ 15].
Table 1 presents the times required for each of the subcategories of procedures, the expenditure on hourly wages (depending on location and category of staff involved), the costs for disposable material and the resulting total costs per procedure.
Data presented are the time expenditure required for each of the procedures considered, the appropriate hourly wage rates (depending on the ward and the type of staff involved), the costs for disposable material and the resulting total costs per procedure.
Patients have an average of 3.4 simple dressings per week at the dressing service of UREMC, resulting in an estimated expenditure of $100.000 USD per year on disposable dressing material alone.
Moreover, cost differences of OL-HDF depend also on the type of monitor used and the proprietary disposable material (tubing line and filter) for the OL-HDF modality [ 11].
No disposable material or equipment was used in the vaginal or laparotomy group.
All the disposable material used was tested for possible contamination in accordance with NF S 90 241, August 1990.
To minimise the risk of contamination, the collection of the specimens was performed at different days using disposable material.
Make sure to lay down newspaper or another disposable material underneath the cardboard tent.
