Disinfection, Decontamination, Cleaning & Sterilization

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 I Data from the CDC indicate that surgical infections cause over 30,000 patient deaths annually. A significant number of these infections are...

What do you do with instruments that are found to still be contaminated after decontamination? One of the many benefits of being a member of the Association for the...

Preventing The Problem With Biofilms In May of this year we examined the initial news report on a hospital that had an outbreak of contaminated surgical instruments. Last month we...

Nearly Three-Quarters Of Commonly Used Medical Scopes Tainted By Bacteria! Data from three major hospitals documented the fact that seventy-one percent (71%) of their reusable medical scopes deemed ready for...

What Does An Instrument Manufacturer Have To Do To Validate Their Cleaning IFUs? (Part I) The FDA mandates that all reusable medical device manufacturers provide instructions for successfully reprocessing their...

How to Properly Disinfect Reusable Medical Devices: Part IV In Part III of “How to Properly Disinfect Reusable Medical Devices” (Novo blog 12/8/17) we discussed various disinfectants that are commercially...

How to Properly Disinfect Reusable Medical Devices: Part III In Part II of “How to Properly Disinfect Reusable Medical Devices” (Novo blog 12/1/17) we discussed various disinfectants that are commercially...

In Part I of “How to Properly Disinfect Reusable Medical Devices” (Novo blog 11/24/17) disinfection was defined as “The process designed to eliminate all pathogenic microorganisms, except bacterial spores, from...

How to Properly Disinfect Reusable Medical Devices: Part I Disinfection is the process designed to eliminate all pathogenic microorganisms, except bacterial spores, from reusable medical devices prior to sterilization. In...