Almost all over World, doctors use reusable Stethoscope to examine the patient, most physicians hung it over their shoulder or around the neck or keep it in a large pocket of their white Apron. Whether in OPD or IPD or in ICU or OT, Ambulance, and Medical camps, they are not only used by treating physicians of different specialties but medical Students, Nurses, and technicians too use it. But hardly we have encountered any Doctor who disinfect it by standard method of sterilisation as using gas or formalin or chlorine chamber, most doctors cleans it if any dust with a clean cloth or paper or hardly with spirit cotton swabs.
As a result, research has shown that Stethoscope is the most important carrier of many antibiotics resistant superbugs from outside to patient and patients to patients. Potential pathogens cultured from stethoscopes include Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas…
