Maintenance; Cleaning And Disinfection; Your System - Advocate Redi-Code+ BMB-EA001 User Manual

Your System

Maintenance

Cleaning and Disinfection

The risk of disease transmission, such as viral hepatitis,
from shared use of blood glucose meter and lancing device
has been increasingly reported by the FDA and CDC*1,2. To
minimize the biohazard risk the cleaning and disinfection procedure
should be perform regularly by the users. The cleaning procedure
is to thoroughly remove all debris and bioburden from the surfaces
of blood glucose meter and the lancing device. The disinfection
procedure is to destroy infectious virus capable of disease
transmission. To prevent the transmission of infectious disease, the
ADVOCATE® Redi-Code+ BMB-EA001S Blood Glucose Meter
and Lancing Device should be cleaned and disinfected when the
following situations happen.
- Whenever the meter and lancing device are visibly dirty.
- At least once per week.
- Before the meter and lancing device are being operated by a
second person who is providing testing assistance to the user.
Make sure you have all items before you clean and disinfect the
meter and lancing device.
- A new pair of clean gloves, which are available in your local
pharmacies.
- A commercially available disinfectant towelette may be used
on this device.
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