Security locking door carts Tecni-Quip security locking door carts help healthcare facilities save money from stolen or misplaced inventory. The carts are available in over 15...
One of the latest outgrowths of healthcare reform demands centers on the “continuum of care” concept. This represents a clinical trend where the healthcare organization tracks...
What can acute care or hospital-based Supply Chain executives and professionals learn from non-acute care sourcing? Eight experts shared their insights. Howard Mann, Vice President...
The rate at which surgical cases have grown in complexity is overwhelming. While in the past every procedure was an “open case,” with the advent of laparoscopic or “minimally ...
It’s not a hoax. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is real — has been for decades — and it’s getting worse.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 23,...
Submit your questions email: [email protected] phone: (941) 927-9345 ext. 202 Visit the ArchivesQ The self-seal peel pouches that we use have an expiration date printed on ...
International Central Service Week and International Infection Prevention Week were both celebrated in October and hopefully, professionals from both groups honored the other ...
Mince no words: Sterile Processing is essential to assuring and ensuring high-quality healthcare delivery. In fact, one may argue successfully that the sterile processing function...
The most misunderstood and overlooked aspect of any reusable device manufacturer’s instructions for cleaning, disinfecting and sterilizing their product is whether those IFUs ...
Those instructions-for-use (IFUs) that device manufacturers provide to hospitals and other healthcare facilities for their sterile processing and distribution (SPD) professionals...
Infection preventionists, nurses, supply chain and sterile processing professionals simply cannot leave an educational conference without hearing the phrase, “if it’s not clean...
Sterility assurance experts cite the need for improved education to help sterile processing professionals comply with manufacturer instructions-for-use (IFUs) guidelines, but ...
What are some of the most and least obvious warning signs your endoscopic equipment has not been cleaned properly and shouldn’t be sent to high-level disinfection or sterilization...
With the unfortunate recent outbreaks of infections tied to ineffectively reprocessed flexible endoscopes, the intensity of interest in methods and means to determine if these...
Type “duodenoscope” into the Google search engine and within 0.3 seconds nearly 112,000 results pop up.The Food and Drug Administration dominate the first two links with the federal...
Donna SwensonDonna Swenson, President and CEO, Sterile Processing Quality Services Inc., Stickney, ILLike any other reusable medical device, endoscopes should be inspected for...
When dead, sterile bioburden gets deposited into the body from a contaminated instrument during a surgical procedure, the foreign, organic material begins to decompose and is ...
STERIS/IMSSTERIS Instrument Management Services provides an easy, cost-effective way to proactively inspect your flexible endoscopes: the Flexible PMI Kit. This kit will help ...
What are the myths versus the truths when it comes to SPD staff comprehending and implementing manufacturer instructions-for-use to reprocess medical/surgical devices?Most pressing...
As sterile processing professionals grapple with understanding and complying with manufacturer instructions-for-use (IFUs) to reprocess reusable medical/surgical devices, questions...
Aside from the sterile processing professional, three key groups can have a significant impact on cleaning education and enforcement. They include regulatory and accrediting/certifying...
According to Practice Greenhealth, hospitals and health systems produce 12,800 tons of waste each day.1 The areas of waste in healthcare are broad — from medical and pharmaceutical...
By the time you read this we likely will have elected the new “leader of the free world” to occupy The White House.Short of making any kind of political statement, let’s just ...
Healthcare supply chain operations in the United States face a stream of urgent, ongoing messages about standards adoption, standards usage, standards benefits and doomsday predictions...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it is estimated that one out of every 25 hospitalized patients will contract a healthcare-associated infection...
What if making sourcing decisions in healthcare were more like buying a new car or major appliance, with a Consumer Reports-like service to provide data on real world performance...
A recent poll of value analysis professionals conducted by SVAH Solutions showed that two-thirds of the respondents haven’t begun integrating clinical supply utilization management...
