The complexity of medical devices has increased over the past 10 years, and outbreaks of infections due to contaminated devices have focused attention on the need to adequately clean medical devices in order to ensure the adequacy of disinfection and…
How Clean are your Surgical Instruments? Joe Paone April 5, 2023 https://www.aorn.org/outpatient-surgery/article/how-clean-are-your-surgical-instruments Introduction Sterile processing leaders offer key insights on what they use to confirm and improve sterility. Just because an instrument has been reprocessed doesn’t mean that it’s clean.…
A review of Spaulding’s classification system for effective cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of reusable medical devices: Viewed through a modern-day lens that will inform and enable future sustainability. ABSTRACT Editor: Damià Barceló Keywords: Medical devices, sustainability Spaulding classification, cleaning, processing…
American Journal of Infection Control High-level disinfection, sterilization, and antisepsis: current issues in reprocessing medical and surgical instruments Abstract Technology is rapidly changing many aspects of health care. The intricate design of instruments, the configuration of instrument trays, and evidence-based…
American Journal of Infection Control Current issues in reprocessing of medical and surgical instruments Abstract By the very nature of reusability, processing for reusable medical devices has been and continues to be risk prone. Healthcare systems have historically been slow…
The Joint Commission Division of Healthcare Improvement Quick Safety Issue 64, February 2022. Ensuring critical instruments and devices are appropriate for reuse Surgical instruments and other critical devices – those that enter sterile tissues1 – are reprocessed and reused every…