Reading an Electronic Freeze Indicator

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Correctly identify and handle vaccines based on their sensitivity to heat, light, or freezing temperatures

What Temperatures Should Vaccines Be?

Planning

Creating an Equipment Inventory

Cold Chain

Tools for Monitoring Cold-Chain Equipment Data

Accurately use temperature monitoring devices to determine if vaccines are stored in safe conditions

How to Monitor and Record Refrigerator Temperatures

Identify the correct temperature range for storing vaccines in vaccine refrigerators

Monitoring Temperatures at Health Facilities

Resources

IIP-Vaccine Cold Chain

Use and basic maintenance of cold chain and temperature monitoring equipment
Temperature monitoring chart

For monitoring and recording refrigerator temperatures every day, twice a day

Any time a vaccine is being transported or stored at your health facility, it must be kept at the right temperature: between two and eight degrees Celsius. This is especially important for freeze sensitive vaccines.