Becker's Hospital Review

On the brink: 3 dangers of inadequate surgical instrument reprocessing departments

One of the most dangerous places to be in America is on an Operating Room table. The Leapfrog Group estimates that as many as 400,000 patients die every year due to preventable hospital errors. And if ...
Becker's ASC

What the Infection Preventionists Should Be Looking at in a Sterile Processing Department

The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology ...
Becker's ASC

Best practices for sterilization of surgical instruments, medical devices

During a June webinar hosted by Becker’s Hospital Review and sponsored by Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP), sterilization expert Nancy Fellows, RN, MSN, senior clinical education consultant for ...
JD Supra

Belgium follows the FDA's approach on the reprocessing of surgical masks and FFP2/FFP3 facemasks

Given the challenges in maintaining the supplies of healthcare materials such as surgical masks and FFP2 and FFP3 face masks, the Belgian Task Force on shortages, a working group set up by the Belgian ...
RFID Journal

Managing Surgical Instruments

In 2011, Shimane University Hospital, in Japan, deployed a high-frequency RFID solution to track surgical instruments used on patients through cleaning, sterilization and storage. The Rigshospitalet ...
Optics

Long term resistance of UDI laser marking proved for the first time by durability test on surgical instruments

In close cooperation with FOBA Laser Marking + Engraving, “add’n solutions GmbH & Co. KG” of Tuttlingen/Germany, a service provider for UDI laser marking on medical devices, conducted a long term ...