Properly managing your lead aprons helps with garment longevity, supports compliance and safety standards, and ensures they adequately protect staff from scatter radiation and HAIs.  However, keeping track of your lead apron inventory can become a low priority when juggling staffing challenges and caring for patients. Unfortunately, poor lead apron management can cause garments to fall […]

Most lead apron cleaning guides or policies will recommend wipes and sprays, but if you’re not cleaning your garments with both regular wipe-downs and quarterly deep cleaning and disinfection, you could be putting your staff and patients at risk of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs). Regular garment cleaning maintains the integrity of personal protective equipment, such as […]

If you’re cleaning lead aprons with wipes and sprays alone, you could be leaving behind dangerous biofilm and other contaminants that can lead to infections and other risks for staff and patients. My co-founder and I contracted Ringworm in two different hospital networks from wearing hospital-owned thyroid collars from facilities that had wipes-based protocols in […]