If only healthcare facilities operated under limitless budgets they could dispose of their reusable devices, equipment and tools after each use and simply buy new products for...
Stride into the Sterile Processing wing of LeeSar Regional Service Center, Fort Myers, FL, and your gaze will be lured up to a sign suspended from the ceiling that reads in bold...
Healthcare facilities are jeopardizing both patient safety and budgets if they aren’t partnering effectively and proactively with their original equipment manufacturers and third...
While sterile processing follows a logical series of steps — decontamination, cleaning and sterilization — so only safe and effective instruments reach the hands of the surgeon...
Preventative maintenance program tipsJanice Reed CRCST, Interim SPD Manager for B.E. Smith, offers the following tips to CS/SPD professionals when implementing a preventative ...
It is common knowledge that a dirty surgical instrument cannot be sterilized. But effectively cleaning them prior to sterilization is no easy task. Failure to pre-clean instruments...
