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RMH3 Dental Chair Covers · Half Chair · 27.5" × 24" · 3 Boxes
SKU 042-0426-P3MFR# RHCS-01-P3
Clear plastic chair covers that slip over the dental chair and come off in one pull between patients. Choose a full chair cover, which covers the chair from headrest to footrest, or a half chair sleeve, which covers the headrest and upper back.
- Full chair covers: 29" x 80" (125 per box) or 48" x 56" (150 per box)
- Half chair sleeves: 27.5" x 24" (225 per box) or 32" x 32" (200 per box)
- Clear plastic, single use, latex-free
- Sold by the box or as 3 boxes
Product
- Manufacturer
- RMH3 Dental
- Manufacturer #
- RHCS-01-P3
- Item code
- 042-0426-P3
Catalog path
- Marketplace
- Clinical
- Category
- Infection Control
- Subcategory
- Surface Barriers
Ordering
- Status
- In stock
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About chair covers
CDC names switches on dental chairs among the clinical contact surfaces that are difficult to clean and are worth protecting with a surface barrier. Sheets are one of the barrier materials listed, together with clear plastic wrap, bags and tubing. A used environmental barrier such as a plastic sheet or bag that covered equipment during treatment is general medical waste.
Clinical contact surfaces are the surfaces in the operatory that are likely to be contaminated by direct spray or spatter during treatment, or by contact with contaminated gloved hands. CDC asks that clinical contact surfaces be barrier protected or cleaned and disinfected between patients, and that barriers be used in particular on surfaces that are difficult to clean. When a surface cannot be cleaned adequately, it should be protected with barriers.
Barriers include clear plastic wrap, bags, sheets, tubing and plastic-backed paper or other materials impervious to moisture. Because such coverings can become contaminated, they are removed and discarded between patients while staff are still gloved; the surface underneath is then examined and only cleaned and disinfected if contamination is evident.
How the types of surface barrier differ
- Digital Sensor & X-Ray Barriers — The radiograph equipment itself, such as the tubehead and control panel, is protected with surface barriers that are changed after each patient.
- Digital sensor barriers — Goes on the sensor, which comes into contact with mucous membranes and is considered a semicritical device.
- Instrument & Syringe Sleeves — Tubing-shaped barriers for the handles and dental unit attachments.
- Air-water syringe sleeves — Sized for the air-water syringe rather than for a handpiece hose or an evacuator handle.
- Chair Covers — Covers the chair and the switches on it.
- Chair & Headrest Covers — A cover for the chair and its headrest, removed and discarded between patients.
- Light Handle Covers — A barrier on the light handles, changed between patients.
- Barrier Film — Clear plastic wrap, the first of the barrier materials CDC lists.
- Tray sleeves — A bag-type barrier, removed and discarded between patients.
- Tray & Surface Wrap — Wrap and sheet material rather than the tubing-shaped barriers.
- Equipment & Device Barriers — Barrier protection reaches equipment as well as surfaces.
What to look at when choosing a surface barrier
FDA clearance: a semicritical item that cannot be reprocessed by heat sterilization or high-level disinfection is, at a minimum, barrier protected with an FDA-cleared barrier to reduce gross contamination during use.
Fit: barriers are aimed at the surfaces that are difficult to clean, and the CDC examples are switches on dental chairs and computer equipment. On a waterline-attached handle the barrier has to be impervious, and it is changed after each use.
What happens after: the surface under the barrier is examined once the barrier is off, and cleaned and disinfected only if contamination is evident.
The alternative: a clinical contact surface that is not barrier-protected is cleaned and disinfected with an EPA-registered hospital disinfectant after each patient, intermediate-level if visibly contaminated with blood.
Disposal: used environmental barriers that covered equipment during treatment are general medical waste and can go out with ordinary waste.
Sources: CDC: Best Practices for Environmental Infection Prevention and Control · CDC: Sterilization and Disinfection (Summary of Infection Prevention Practices in Dental Settings) · CDC: Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings — 2003 (MMWR RR-17) · ADA Oral Health Topics: Infection Control and Sterilization
