What do you use to log your vaccine fridge temperatures?

RE: What do you use to log your vaccine fridge temperatures?

Glenn Hodgson — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 13:00:44 GMT

I'll try find our brand of datalogger for you. it has Worked well for.the last few years and At £60ish it is cheaper than a notebook and the person attached to it :-) do a download once a year. 5 min job

RE: What do you use to log your vaccine fridge temperatures?

bob lehner — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 14:18:32 GMT

Yes - I should have said that an 'alarmed fridge' is very good!

RE: What do you use to log your vaccine fridge temperatures?

Bob Russell — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 10:46:58 GMT

Our fridges have alarms that sound (and keep sounding) if temperatures go outside the required range. We rely on this on a day to day basis and retrospective data logger for the VMD!

RE: What do you use to log your vaccine fridge temperatures?

bob lehner — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 09:48:18 GMT

Simplest, cheapest and most reliable method is a max/min thermometer in the fridge with someone delegated to read and record it daily (and more importantly to actually do something about it if temperatures stray too hi or low). The ones you can read externally, as described above, are the easiest to use.

Data loggers can be problematic as they provide retrospective data - some people just download them weekly or even monthly - a waste of time knowing that your fridge went wrong a month ago! They also need an audible alarm to indicate there is a problem (some have a visual alarm - but this is less good unless checked meticulously - as loggers often get lost or buried behind other stuff in the fridge).

RE: What do you use to log your vaccine fridge temperatures?

Rob Loxley — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 08:52:16 GMT

Another practice just noting down the temperatures. If you have a data-logger you still need to check the actual temperature daily to make sure it's working. Either way, you also need a protocol for what to do if the temperature is out of range. We recently moved from having the max/min thermometer in the fridge to sticking it on the front with a sensor on a wire going in through the door, so you can read it without the door being open (and the fridge temperature having risen)

RE: What do you use to log your vaccine fridge temperatures?

Julian Earl — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 22:15:25 GMT

No, Just delegate the job to areliable member of staff with a notebook/record-book and using a maximum/mininmum digital thermometer. It worked for me. One of the more useful requirements of the Practice Standards Scheme I felt. But a bit alarming to see the temperature-variations! We didn't use a high-tech-system just conscientiousness and pen and paper.

RE: What do you use to log your vaccine fridge temperatures?

Hannah Wynne Richards — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 18:04:59 GMT

Notebook

Wynne

why use anything more complicated?

RE: What do you use to log your vaccine fridge temperatures?

Martin Atkinson — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 17:15:27 GMT

[quote user="Evelyn Barbour-Hill"]

A little notebook.

[/quote]Ditto. Well actually a clipboard on each fridge which is checked twice a day, including the weekend/bank holidays with a standard fridge thermometer and a maximum/minimum thermometer weekly. The man from the VMD was happy with this. There is no need to get over-technical/expensive unless you're storing large quantities of temperature sensitive products.

RE: What do you use to log your vaccine fridge temperatures?

Bob Russell — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 13:58:17 GMT

A data logger that used to be sold by Animus. Now taken over by a company that seems to rent them out.

Worked for years with original battery!

RE: What do you use to log your vaccine fridge temperatures?

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 13:48:34 GMT

A little notebook.