Decontamination of Incubators in a NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) (DECONTA)

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Care Worker Patient Transmission

Treatments: Biological: Skin sampling of the hands of the healthcare workers involved in the decontamination of incubators

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04337307

ID-RCB (Other Identifier)

69HCL20_0299

Details and patient eligibility

About

Nosocomial infections are responsible for morbidity and mortality in hospitalized neonates. The environment of the neonates and especially the incubators can constitute the reservoir of pathogenic bacteria. That is why decontamination of incubators is a major step in the fight against nosocomial infections in NICUs.

The hypothesize is that the usual procedure of decontamination, based on antiseptic molecules, is not sufficient to eradicate all pathogenic bacteria from the incubators.

In this study the investigator's aim to assess the efficacy of the usual procedure of decontamination and to compare it with another procedure based on steam pulverization. Another objective will be to explore a possible contamination of the hands of the healthcare workers, that can be involved in the cycle of transmission of bacteria to neonates. Finally, clinical data about the neonates housed in the incubator will be retrieved from clinical reports, to identify the occurrence of sepsis and if so, to compare the bacteria involved in the sepsis and the bacteria present in the incubator.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthcare workers involved in the decontamination process of incubators during the study period (period of sampling of incubators before and after decontamination)
• The two people involved in the sampling of incubators
• The patients (neonates) that will be housed in one incubator decontaminated and sampled during the study period

Exclusion criteria

• Refusal to participate for healthcare workers and people involved in the sampling
• Refusal to give access to the clinical data of his child for the parent of the patients included in the study-

Trial design

40 participants in 2 patient groups

standard decontamination

Description:

incubators decontaminated with antiseptic molecules, healthcare workers involved in this decontamination, patients housed in these incubators

Treatment:

Biological: Skin sampling of the hands of the healthcare workers involved in the decontamination of incubators

steam pulverization

Description:

incubators decontaminated with steam pulverization, healthcare workers involved in this decontamination, patients housed in these incubators

Treatment:

Biological: Skin sampling of the hands of the healthcare workers involved in the decontamination of incubators