Guest guest Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 We use Bromine in our tank, and in addition to testing our water twice a day, we also culture the tank every 6 months. On average I change out the water about every other week and so far we have always gotten a neg. culture result. ( Samples taken of the water, sides of the tank, and the treadmill itself) Krista Paugh, LVT, CCRA --- Water testing?Date: Fri, January 04, 2008 11:45 amTo: VetRehab Hello-I am curious if anyone out there with underwater treadmills uses a scheduled water/enviornmental culture protocol? We use cholrine as our sanitizer, along with regular water changes, but I wonder if we should be doing more to check/double check that we aren't growing some weird bugs in our tank. Of course we don't have patients with open wounds/incisions in the pool, but with seeing more resistant staphs and such these days... or maybe I am being paranoid ?!Thanks! Dobson CVT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 The most common place we see growth is on our treadmill belt itself? Anyone else culture the belt? J. Sessum, RVT Texas A & M University College of Veterinary Medicine Small Animal Rehabilitation & Surgery Technician Supervisor http://vmth.tamu.edu/rehab.shtml >>> 1/7/2008 11:45 AM >>> We use Bromine in our tank, and in addition to testing our water twice a day, we also culture the tank every 6 months. On average I change out the water about every other week and so far we have always gotten a neg. culture result. ( Samples taken of the water, sides of the tank, and the treadmill itself) Krista Paugh, LVT, CCRA --- Water testing? Date: Fri, January 04, 2008 11:45 am To: VetRehab Hello- I am curious if anyone out there with underwater treadmills uses a scheduled water/enviornmental culture protocol? We use cholrine as our sanitizer, along with regular water changes, but I wonder if we should be doing more to check/double check that we aren't growing some weird bugs in our tank. Of course we don't have patients with open wounds/incisions in the pool, but with seeing more resistant staphs and such these days... or maybe I am being paranoid ?! Thanks! Dobson CVT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 Here is the info on the steam cleaner we use. http://www.vaporcleanproducts.com/ The model we use is the vapor clean TR5, it has nice attachments that are easy to use. We also use it to clean our kennels in ICU and our wards with disinfectant and it has cut down on our bacterial growth in the entire hospital. J. Sessum, RVT Texas A & M University College of Veterinary Medicine Small Animal Rehabilitation & Surgery Technician Supervisor http://vmth.tamu.edu/rehab.shtml >>> 1/4/2008 5:42 PM >>> What kind of steam cleaner do you use? Janice Huntingford Essex Animal Hospital Canine Rehab and Fitness Centre ---- Original Message ---- To: VetRehab Sent: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 1:15 pm Subject: Re: Water testing? - I have cultured MRSA, pseudomonas (of course because it loves a wet environment), and klebsiella from our Ferno pool here at Texas A & M. I started with chlorine for a sanitizer because of the positive cultures, then switched to Chlorazene from Ferno (which is what they recommended) with Sanizene sprayed on the walls between patients. Guess what-positive cultures! We culture the actual belt, and the walls of our treadmill not the tank. We searched and searched for a chemical to sanitize with that would kill all organisms without damaging the plastic and had no results. We finally bought a steam cleaner and have negative cultures ever since. We still use Chlorazene and Sanizene with the steam cleaner and have great results. I know a lot of people culture their water and have no growth, but we culture the holding tank itself and have had some positive cultures with scary organisms show up. Our tank is drained on Friday and refilled on Monday, then cultured every Monday after disinfection. We have a great microbiology department and an Infection Control Coordinator that we work closely with to develop these protocols. I will be happy to discuss this with anyone off of the group. J. Sessum, RVT Texas A & M University College of Veterinary Medicine Small Animal Rehabilitation & Surgery Technician Supervisor http://vmth.tamu.edu/rehab.shtml >>> " Dobson " 1/4/2008 10:45 AM >>> Hello- I am curious if anyone out there with underwater treadmills uses a scheduled water/environmental culture protocol? We use chlorine as our sanitizer, along with regular water changes, but I wonder if we should be doing more to check/double check that we aren't growing some weird bugs in our tank. Of course we don't have patients with open wounds/incisions in the pool, but with seeing more resistant staphs and such these days... or maybe I am being paranoid ?! Thanks! Dobson CVT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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