MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Well-defined and properly monitored cleaning and sterilization practices are vital to achieving infection prevention goals within healthcare facilities. Busy surgery ...

What the Infection Preventionists Should Be Looking at in a Sterile Processing Department The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly ...

A round 140 surgeries and other invasive procedures take place in our hospital system each week day — and at each one, a surgeon will walk into the operating room and find his or her instruments ...

If the levels are low enough, you may open windows and doors to try and ventilate the area. Otherwise you evacuate the area and call for help. A carbon monoxide leak is very serious and has to be ...

The following content is sponsored by Surgical Directions. Most hospitals in recent years have focused needed attention on preventing surgical site infections. Properly timed antibiotics, skin ...

Two of the documents Lakeland (Fla.) Surgical & Diagnostic Center uses which are related to sterile processing are a sterile processing department testing and load form and sterile processing ...