Lead aprons carry MRSA. Most are never cleaned.
While in New Orleans last month for the 2026 AORN Global Surgical Conference and Expo, I attended a session called, “Is It Really Clean? ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) Contamination Monitoring.” The discussion got into the nitty gritty of rapid measurement of cleanliness: what ATP testing is, where it is used inside a hospital, and the surfaces that fail testing most consistently. The real gem of the presentation was the list of …
Lead aprons carry MRSA. Most are never cleaned.
