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Adding Cleaning Verification Tests to Your Reprocessing Regimen
Prevention Strategies
“If it looks dirty, it’s definitely dirty. If it looks clean, it might still be dirty” — a recent webinar explains this critical insight and more regarding recently mandated cleaning verification tests for high-risk endoscopes.
Why Bedside Cleaning is the Most Important Step in Endoscope Reprocessing
Prevention Challenges
“It’s baffling, it’s intriguing, and it is the most important step in the endoscope reprocessing chain,” according to an expert featured on a recent episode of the Beyond Clean podcast.
APIC 2022: Day 1 Report
Prevention Strategies
“Our work is stabilizing a reeling world,” said the president of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology as the organization hosts an annual conference for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Novel Training Model Boosts Knowledge and Confidence in Sterile Processing Professionals
Prevention Strategies
“SP personnel are expected to inspect diverse endoscope models, reliably identify defects, interpret findings, and take actions such as recleaning or assessing damage to determine whether repairs are necessary,” a new study reads, validating the need for a new, evidence-based training model.
What to Know About ANSI/AAMI ST108
Prevention Challenges
“Water is actually really complex in its chemistry and depending on where you are geographically, the water quality can be very different,” says the co-chair of a working group authoring the new standard.
More From Single-Use Endoscopy
Best Practices
From progress in the gender wage gap to new roles for physician assistants, the otolaryngology space is a busy place.
Preventing Infection
Research presented recently at ACG 2023 proves this, as well as low adverse event rates from single-use models.
