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Like many of you who've switched from aerosol spray bottles to more user-friendly disposable wipes to disinfect non-critical items and surfaces in the OR, it was the quest for efficiency and a shorter contact time that led Heather Huffman, RN, CNOR, to change. Ms. Huffman, administrative director of the Surgical Eye Center of Morgantown (W.Va.), recently switched from a "very expensive" solution that required mixing and had a "way-too-long" 10-minute kill time to impregnated wipes with a 3- to 5-minute kill time. Signaling a clear preference for wipes with contact times of 5 minutes or less, our survey of 115 facility managers found that:
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