Water quality for medical device reprocessing
Learn about the impact water quality has on medical device reprocessing, patient safety, and preventing surgical infections.
June 25, 2024
16 view(s) Disinfection, Decontamination, Cleaning & Sterilization
Improving IFUs remain a ‘mission-critical’ journey
Ongoing validation of IFUs remains essential for safety in sterile processing. Experts at ECRI discuss challenges and solutions.
June 25, 2024
18 view(s) Minimizing risk of surgical instruments contamination
Any and all steps taken by you and your staff to reduce the risk of an instrument contaminated with organic debris being returned to surgery will help reduce the risk of a patient contracting...
June 25, 2024
21 view(s) Water Quality & Surgical Instruments
While often overlooked, water is important for all stages of reusable medical device processing. Water is required for decontamination, soaking...
June 21, 2024
14 view(s) Why it’s critical to detect bioburden on surgical instruments
This article is a repost from the #IFUCan blog hosted on Linked In. The first two paragraphs are teased below,...
August 2, 2023
25 view(s) Facts behind IFU validation: Here’s the who, what, where, when, why and how (including how much)
The No. 1 responsibility of everyone involved in reusable medical device reprocessing is to minimize the risk of patient harm caused by a device that remains contaminated with organic debris...
January 14, 2021
172 view(s) Risk of Misinterpreting Hydrogen Peroxide Indicators: FDA Letter Concerning the Safety Risk to Patients
Earlier this year the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was made aware of the potential to misinterpret colored hydrogen peroxide indicator strips used to validate vapor sterilization of medical...
September 15, 2020
19 view(s) Have you Validated your Instrument Cleaning Instructions?
There has been increased scrutiny on sterile processing departments regarding their practices for cleaning and sterilizing reusable surgical instruments and other medical devices.. The situation is complicated by the variances...
July 19, 2020
26 view(s) FDA to Focus on Lowering Ethylene Oxide Emissions
Recently the FDA conducted a public advisory committee meeting to comment on the feasibility of various strategies to reduce (or completely eliminate) ethylene oxide (EtO) emissions from large-scale, medical device...
January 9, 2020
9 view(s) A Few Ideas To Help Reduce Surgical Infections In 2020
The primary responsibility of everyone involved in reusable medical device reprocessing is to minimize the risk of a surgical infection caused by a device that remains contaminated with organic debris...
January 2, 2020
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