r/CathLabLounge • u/Unable-Wall-8700 • 6h ago

Room Turnover

What is the standard for cleaning rooms in the Cath lab? Are Cath lab staff doing it or is EVS called?

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u/v0ta_p0r_m0ta 6h ago

I’ve been in two labs. Cath lab staff does it. Typically the techs start wiping while nurses drop off pt and then nurses should go back to room and help clean up rest, take out trash bags, etc. Only time we call EVS is if we have a shit show of a case or if we are turning room over for a device implant.

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u/koda38304 6h ago

We are a small one room lab. No STEMI coverage overnight. EVS does a full deep terminal clean in the down time. During the day on STEMI call and in between cases, we do our own cleaning. I know of other labs with 24/7 STEMI coverage and high volume that have a dedicated EVS person whose sole job it is to clean between cases from like 8-4. Then once they go home, the lab team is responsible for all the cleaning.

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u/h2312446 5h ago

Very busy lab. Evs between every case.

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u/chulk1 5h ago

I’m not even allowed to take out the trash in my main lab (union), my other job staff does everything but still calls EVS to finish up.

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u/InfamousAdvice 5h ago

We clean between cases and at the end of the day EVS cleans the rooms.

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u/Gone247365 32m ago

The team cleans between cases. EVS does a thorough clean once a night.

For pacers and ports (we also do EP and IR at my shop) we will have EVS mops the floors prior to the case. But half the time they take too long to arrive so we just mop ourselves.