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An Update On The Problems Caused By Non-Validated Endoscopes The ongoing problem of patient harm caused by endoscopes whose cleaning IFUs have not been validated continues to make the news....

Draft of New AAMI Validation Requirements The FDA first published “Reprocessing Medical Devices in Health Care Settings: Validation Methods and Labeling Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration” on...

Novo Surgical’s Educational Program at the Ohio Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (OAASC) Annual Meeting “Visual Inspection" vs. "Validated IFUs" An ‘Invisible’ Patient Safety Issue  Last month the Ohio Association...

The Importance of Pre-Cleaning Instruments in the O.R. (Part III) Over the past year there has been increased emphasis and attention placed on pre-cleaning surgical instruments in the O.R. prior...

The Importance Of Pre-Cleaning Instruments In The O.R. (Part II) In Part I of this blog, we discussed the fact that over the past year there has been an...

The Importance Of Pre-Cleaning Instruments In The O.R. (Part I) Over the past year there has been a lot of increased emphasis and attention placed on pre-cleaning surgical instruments in...

Have Modular Instruments Lowered Surgical Infection Rates? Part II In Part I of this blog we looked at how a number of surgical instrument companies introduced ‘modular’ instruments that could...

Have ‘Modular’ Instruments Lowered Surgical Infection Rates? Part I Data from the CDC indicate that surgical infections cause over 30,000 patient deaths annually. A significant number of these infections are...

Manufacturer Validation of Cleaning IFUs? (Part VI) In Part I of this blog, we discussed the FDA’s mandate issued on March 17, 2015, that all reusable medical...

Laparoscopic Surgeries Underutilized In Older Patients A study of more than 233,000 Medicare patients who had common surgical procedures found that when compared to the general population, they underwent far...