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Hail2Pitt
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Hi all,
I’ve just had another inhaled antibiotic added to my regimen, so I’m now doing six nebulizers a day. This includes hypertonic saline twice a day, inhaled amikacin twice a day, and now inhaled colistin twice a day.
With my busy schedule, I’m struggling to figure out how to keep all of my nebulizers clean and sterilized. Before starting the colistin (when I was just on saline and amikacin), I’d decided to buy 21 nebulizers. That way, I could clean and sterilize them all at one time, and then have a supply to last me the week (each day I’d use one for two doses of hypertonic saline, and then one for each dose of amikacin). But now that I have two additional treatments to do each day, I’m not sure how to handle this.
I just don’t have time to be cleaning and sterilizing nebulizers every day, and I think cleaning them a few times a week would be tough as well. What do you all do to ensure your equipment is clean, especially when you have to do several nebulizers a day? Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
I’ve just had another inhaled antibiotic added to my regimen, so I’m now doing six nebulizers a day. This includes hypertonic saline twice a day, inhaled amikacin twice a day, and now inhaled colistin twice a day.
With my busy schedule, I’m struggling to figure out how to keep all of my nebulizers clean and sterilized. Before starting the colistin (when I was just on saline and amikacin), I’d decided to buy 21 nebulizers. That way, I could clean and sterilize them all at one time, and then have a supply to last me the week (each day I’d use one for two doses of hypertonic saline, and then one for each dose of amikacin). But now that I have two additional treatments to do each day, I’m not sure how to handle this.
I just don’t have time to be cleaning and sterilizing nebulizers every day, and I think cleaning them a few times a week would be tough as well. What do you all do to ensure your equipment is clean, especially when you have to do several nebulizers a day? Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!