What Is the Safest Approach to Cleaning and Managing Contaminated

question 12

Multiple Choice

What is the safest approach to cleaning and managing contaminated hand instruments?

• A)Hand-scrubbing the instruments with a long-handled brush, then placing them on the bottom of an ultrasonic cleaner tank and ultrasonically cleaning them
• B)Ultrasonic cleaning the instruments placed on the bottom of the cleaner tank, then hand scrubbing them with a long-handled brush
• C)Ultrasonic cleaning in a cleaning basket
• D)Ultrasonic cleaning in instrument cassettes

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