What protocols or safeguards do you implement if bed bugs are found on a patient or their belongings while on the treatment table or near equipment?

Typically once a bedbug is identified, the patient is brought directly into our inpatient holding bay so that there is limited time to contaminate common areas of the department. Therapists do utilize contact precautions including knee high shoe covers. We then have our hospital facilities team trea...

Our protocol is very close to Dr. @Dr. First Last's.

We have an isolation holding area with a direct outside door close to the vault where identified patients are held until treatment.

Patients with known bed bug infestations are asked to shower before they come to treatment and wear clean clothes ...