Introducing Our Blog Series on Cleaning Instructions

We are excited to launch our brand new blog series on the important and timely topic of cleaning instructions for medical devices! Here at Novo Surgical we know how hard you work to ensure a clean, sterile operating room environment for every case to reduce your patients’ risk of contracting a surgical infection. A key element in reducing the risk of a surgical infection is to minimize the chance of a contaminated instrument being returned to surgery after reprocessing. To reduce that risk takes a plan, a commitment, knowledge and team work. As a full-line supplier of high-quality surgical instrumentation, Novo Surgical shares in your goal of reducing the risk of a contaminated instrument causing patient harm. To that end, this blog will serve as an educational tool and reference source for you and your team members to use in your fight to ensure clean, sterile, moisture-free instruments for every patient, every time. Given recent unfortunate incidents at healthcare facilities involving contaminated instruments along with an recent focus by regulators and standards organizations alike on this important patient safety issue, we feel that the launch of this blog couldn't be more timely. Over the next several months we will be exploring a wide range of issues and topics to help you achieve your goal of reducing patient risk and improve outcomes. Some of the topics we will cover include: cleaning technologies and methods; tactics and means to decontaminate devices; “Validated” vs “Non-Validated” IFUs; the pathogenesis of a surgical site infection caused by a contaminated instrument; the risks and liabilities associated with ‘flash’ sterilization; human factors in reprocessing medical devices. In addition to exploring these and many more current topics, we want to encourage you to contact us with your questions, concerns and ideas. Please utilize this blog site as an open information exchange. Together, we can all have a positive impact on reducing patient harm from contaminated instruments and provide better patient outcomes.