Macerators
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On Jan 11 2006 11:12AM  Catherine.Stokoe wrote: 
Hi
Currently the district general hospital I work in uses Bed pan washers, however they have are coming to the end of their life, and we are proposing to move to Macerators as a rolling programme of replacement. I don't have any personal experience of Macerators so I am after any information you can supply on your experiences (eg. companies, maintainence, etc)
Many thanks
Catherine Stokoe
Infection Control
Wansbeck General Hospital
Ashington
01670 521212 ext.3742
On Jan 11 2006 4:34PM  lorrainehome wrote: 
I work in a DGH which uses macerators. The buildings
are old and recently we have had lots of problems with
the plumbing which some believe may be due to the
build up of waste from the macerators.

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> Currently the district general hospital I work in
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> move to Macerators as a rolling programme of
> replacement. I don"t have any personal experience of
> Macerators so I am after any information you can
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> Many thanks
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> Infection Control
> Wansbeck General Hospital
> Ashington
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On Jan 12 2006 10:39AM  Odawnobrien wrote: 
The biggest problem I have found with macerators is when people put non
maceratable eqipment in them and block them. The estates do not think they
should unblock them as they did not cause the problem and the nurses obviously are
not trained and in my opinion should not be involved in doing this. What
also compounds the situation is the risk around chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
On Jan 12 2006 10:40AM  shona.henderson wrote: 
I had the same issue in a previous post. We got Vernacare macerators and found their service and aftercare good, although they were called out more often than not because people put things in there that they shouldn't have.

The plumbing was a problem because it was an old site and the pipes have to be a certain bore to cope with the drainange, however our pipes were big enough according to the survey, but staff still experienced problems with drainage.
On Jan 15 2006 10:29PM  Julian.Ketel wrote: 
We are in the process of replacing manual cleaning and old sanitisers
with macerators. Problems have been experienced but 99% are related to
staff practice and putting the wrong things in the macerator. Some
plumbing issues were identified and repairs carried out which solved
them. We are now charging individual areas for repairs/callouts related
to poor practice in an attempt to focus minds.... They are a good
solution for us and helped to deal with some compliance issues and as
staff have adapted to them they indicate that they prefer this - a
survey showed about 90% of staff found macerators to be a better
solution;-)than previous practice.

Happy new year,

Regards,

Julian

Julian Ketel
BSc (Hons) Infection Control, NComp
Infection Control Nurse Consultant
Lakes DHB
Rotorua Hospital
Private bag 3023
Rotorua

tel: 07 3497955 ex 8746
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