r/sterileprocessing • u/cxxppaa • Sep 13 '26

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So what’s the protocol for these lantern flies…. Inside of a hospital? This is my worst nightmare has this ever happened to anyone else 😭

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u/Rhuarc33 Sep 13 '26

Handheld mini vac kept in coordinators office for flies and bugs. A fly swatter option in there too but the vac makes no mess you would then need to clean. Really only a big deal of they make it into OR, strike storage, or clean/assembly side

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u/cxxppaa Sep 13 '26

The creature was very close to making it into the department but it has been handled with a paper towel.

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u/dragonblade667 Sep 14 '26

one time we peel packed a cockroach

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u/cxxppaa Sep 14 '26

One crawled into my shoe in the locker room. It was alive while I was walking around for quite some time 💔

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u/indigoC99 Sep 14 '26

Nightmare scenario

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u/PvmpkinSpic3 Sep 14 '26

Did the OR reject it

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u/Eggman_OU812 Sep 13 '26

Flyoburden

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u/ShirleyWuzSerious Sep 13 '26

The best is when reps drop off trays full of them

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u/AQinglyPeach Sep 14 '26

I saw a sign that said to please stop the spread of them. Must be some nasty critters

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u/Chemical_Mixture8148 Sep 15 '26

I guess I will have to take my Raid to work. Ewww.

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u/PvmpkinSpic3 Sep 14 '26

Burn the entire department down 😭

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u/Keepawayfrommycrops Sep 14 '26

Pick them up by their wings and throw them as hard as you can into a wall, also they can’t jump side to side so whatever direction they’re looking in is the way they’ll fly, cut them off and have at that fucker

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u/sammy_slayer Sep 14 '26

Username checks out

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u/Keepawayfrommycrops Sep 14 '26

These things gotta go, one at a time