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Is The Need For Validated IFUs A New Issue? Over the past several years a recurring topic of these weekly blogs has been the need for all healthcare facilities to...

FDA Safety Communication Regarding the Importance of Following Duodenoscope Reprocessing Instructions (IFUs) The FDA’s latest Safety Communication on duodenoscopes traces its history back to 2013 when the FDA first learned...

The complete and thorough decontamination of reusable medical devices and surgical instruments prior to sterilization is an important patient safety issue. Surgical infections have long been, and continue to be,...

Pathogenesis of a Deep-Organ Surgical Site Infection (SSI) from a Contaminated Laparoscopic Instrument According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over 30,000 patients die every year in...

Why Are “Validated” IFUs So Important For Patient Safety? (Part II) In Part I of this blog we described the magnitude of the problem caused by hospital acquired infections (HAIs)....

Why Are “Validated” IFUs So Important For Patient Safety? (Part I) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are one of the leading causes of...

New Whole Blood Test Quickly Identifies Sepsis Without A Culture Sepsis kills over 250,000 people a year in America according to the Sepsis Alliance, a nationwide advocacy group committed to...

How & When To Report Medical Device Problems To The FDA The FDA came into being in 1906 with the passage of the 1906 “Pure Food and Drugs Act.” The...

Water’s Role in Instrument Reprocessing The reprocessing of surgical instruments is defined as the process of removing foreign material (e.g., bioburden, biofilm) from the instruments and is usually accomplished using...

Is It Necessary To Dry Processed Instruments Prior To Sterilization? Novo Surgical has just returned from IAHCSMM’s 2019 Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. The meeting was attended by over 1,300...