• Patients with MRSA should be isolated and hospitalised in isolation, with no other patients.
• One kennel nurse should be assigned to caring for the patient, any staff with open wounds should not come into contact with the patient.
• Staff contact should be limited to what is essential.
• Barrier nursing should be adhered to at all times.
• Refer to SOP Barrier nursing and appendix A.

Appendix A - Disinfectants

1. We use Anigene as our disinfectant.
2. It is made up daily for kennels and cattery in yellow buckets at a concentration rate of 1:100 (10ml Anigene to 1ltr water).
3. We have spray bottles with 1:100 concentration in consult rooms, pharmacy, prep room, dental, laboratory, kennels, cattery, radiography, theatres. It is used to clean surfaces between each patient.
4. We use a concentration on 1:100 to clean all floors, made up daily and disposed of correctly at the end of the day. Yellow bucket and yellow mops: kennels, cattery, waiting room. Green bucket and green mops: prep room, radiography, dental, scrub. Blue bucket and blue mops: both theatres.
5. For cleaning isolation, we made up Anigene at a concentration of 1:50 in spray bottles, bucket and mop bucket
6. Red bucket and red mops – Isolation
7. Mop heads are washed in the washing machine at 60.c after each use.
8. Windows and glass are cleaned with Flash Anti-bac Plus.

Prepared by VetNurse.co.uk. V1. 26/9/2023

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