Bio-decontamination is an essential process for infection prevention and control in healthcare facilities. In medical contexts, it is widely used to safeguard patient safety. Thus, we can keep hospital spaces secure by biodecontaminating different areas and medical equipment. Inadequate decontamination of hospital equipment will increase the risk of infection transmission between patients. Thus, safeguarding patient safety is the main objective of strictly enforcing bio-decontamination in hospitals.

All hospital equipment is either single-use or reusable. Single-use equipment should not be reused and should be discarded appropriately after use. All reusable equipment must be decontaminated between use and between patients. Infection can be spread via inadequately decontaminated items.

Equipment will need cleaning and/or disinfection or sterilisation. The choice of decontamination method will depend on the risk of infection associated with the equipment.

Regardless of use, any equipment must, as a minimum, be cleaned between patients.

Cleaning is an essential pre- requisite of an