Or Sandbag cleaning

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The positioning sandbags in our OR are disgusting. Stickey from tape residue. The ortho surgeons do not want a towel on the sandbags so they get covered with tape residue. We have tried every product in our OR to clean them. I found one yesterday with hair stuck in the residue. Yuk. Any ideas or a commercial cleaner you have used.

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Specializes in RETIRED Cath Lab/Cardiology/Radiology.

Dh would recommend WD-40. :)

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Specializes in Trauma Surgery, Nursing Management.

We have the same problem in our OR. During my (rare) downtime, I will collect the positioning equipment that my team uses and try to get this gunk off. Klenzyme works pretty well since it breaks up proteins. I usually soak my safety belts in Klenzyme and then use a surgical scrub brush to get all of the yuck out. Alcohol usually takes tape residue off (I used to use an alcohol pad to help take off tegaderm and tape when I was removing IVs a hundred years ago when I was working on the floor/unit), but you have to use a lot of it and then use a scrub brush on it too. I am just thankful that you have the wherewithall to clean stuff! I hardly ever see any of my co-workers cleaning equipment.

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Thanks. We have a great housekeeping staff that cleans everything. But they wipe do not struggle to remove residue. I guess they are clean aside from the disgustingness of the look. Maybe someday there will be a ezclean covering for things like that. What sets me off the most. Getting a roll of tape from drawer and finding hairs on it. Tear off a strip you idiots.Do not use the whole roll to pick up hairs. And when finished at end of case donot put leftover good roll of tape on my mayo.

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