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Hi All

This might not be a new topic but from looking through the forum yesterday I didn't find anything close to my question re the Genius 2 thermometers.
Have any of you come across issues with the cleaning solutions that are used in your hospitals damaging the plastic on the G2’s? The result is the tip breaks apart quite dramatically just under the blue collar. I can see from some of the topics relate to damaged tips, but are they related to the cleaning solutions?

DD

Hi Double D,

Yes we have the same problem here in Aberfreeze. Lots and lots of thermometers broken under the blue collar. I'm sure I have seen a letter from Covidien stating that is the cleaning fluid that is at fault and that they recommend using a different cleaning agent. Wasn't so bad as we were getting parts foc but the stocks seem to have dried up as they are waiting on a shipment from China and we have no parts for weeks now. Last I heard they were just replacing broken ones with new ones. Oh yes and the new ones are different again having a little membrane keypad instead of the buttons.

What I was told by a trainer that the reason for the thermometers breaking under the collar was the way the users were removing the thermometer from its base. If the thermometer is picked up by the area next to the battery cover then the tip could catch on the stored tip cover cartridges and break. He told us the correct way to remove the thermometer from its base was to lift the display end first.

I'd be inclined to say that lifting it from the front is worse - there's not much room in that direction, and in fact the blue collar is pretty much right up against the inside of the base.