[Histonet] Morgue Refridgerator Temperature

[Fawn Bomar]

Does anyone have a procedure for recording their morgue refridgerator temperatures that they would be willing to share?  We do not perform autopsies at our facility any more but we have the refridgerator that the bodies are temporarily stored until they are picked up.  We are monitoring the temperature but do not have an actual procedure written.  I was wondering about a few key points such as,



1.  What is the temperature range

2.  Do you have a specific time allocated to check the temperature

3.  If a body is placed in the fridge, do you give it a certain amount of time to get the temperature back into range

4.  Do you have the other departments fill out a log of some sort to know if and when they place bodies in the fridge to account for any temperature changes



Thank you

Fawn Bomar
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