Lots wrong with that machine condom. For example, Say you're bagging patient and your bag pops off and falls to floor. When you try to put the bag back on, the plastic machine condom gets caught between the the opening of the bag and the arm of the circuit, occluding flow into and out of the bag. Messing around with that nonsense on induction or if patient is in laryngospasm, etc isn't something I'm interested in. One of the hospitals I'm at has touch screen monitors, will the bag interfere with that?
I routinely wipe the machine surfaces, vaporizors, fresh gas flow knobs, cart surfaces etc off even if I have a tech I know is doing it too. I change a sterile towel to put my airway equipment on between every case. It takes 1-2 minutes. Pretty fast turnovers in private practice hospitals too. Bottom line, I don't think this machine wrapper is a great idea. Common sense with changing dirty gloves and a good wipe down between cases seems to be enough, considering the carts the patients actually lay on receive lesser treatment in between uses.
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