The hospital staff has just returned the long spine board you used to immobilize a patient from a minor motor vehicle collision. There is no blood on the board, but your service policy states that all equipment is to be disinfected any time that it is used. To properly disinfect the long spine board, what should you use?

A) Soap and water
B) Sterilizing solution
C) Germicidal solution
D) Superheated steam


C

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