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Stethoscope disinfection monitoring and reporting system

  • US 8,795,438 B2
  • Filed: 02/18/2010
  • Issued: 08/05/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A stethoscope disinfection monitoring and reporting system, comprising:

  • a cleaning assembly comprising a housing sized to hang on a vertical surface and structured and configured to at least partially clean a head portion of a stethoscope,a reader assembly connected to said housing at a predetermined location,a hygienic monitoring device at least momentarily disposed in a proximate and communicative relation with said reader assembly while the head portion of the stethoscope is disposed in a cleaning relation to said cleaning assembly,wherein said reader assembly is configured to be activated as a result of the head portion of the stethoscope being in said housing of said cleaning assembly for cleaning, and is structured and disposed to detect and identify said proximately disposed hygienic monitoring device only once activated,a cleaning verification assembly connected to said housing and including a sensor device, said sensor device disposed in communicating relation to the head portion when the head portion is in said cleaning relation within said cleaning assembly, andsaid sensor structured to detect and verify the presence of a cleaning fluid on the head portion of the stethoscope assembly when in said cleaning assembly.

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