Are Your Endoscopes Really Clean? Are Your Endoscopes Really Clean?

Twice the Protection; Double gloving prevents injury and infection, so why aren't more surgical teams doing it?

Infection Prevention; Rewriting the Rules of Cataract Reprocessing

Scratch Beneath the Surface; Audit the effectiveness of OR cleaning by taking a big-picture view of the entire process.

Stop the Spread of MRSA; Nasal decolonization is a practical way to lower infection risks.

A Look Inside Low-Temp Sterilization; 6 points to keep in mind about reprocessing heat-sensitive instruments.

Patient Warming Stops SSIs Cold; Maintaining normothermia promotes wound healing and helps reduce infection risks.

5 Ways to Standardize Skin Prepping Practices; Applying preps the same way every time eliminates the variables that increase infection risk.

Rev Up Your Reprocessing Room; 8 exciting high-tech advances on the horizon for your facility's instrument hub.

By targeting our most vulnerable patients, we dramatically reduced SSIs.

A Smarter Way to Sterilize Instruments - Sterile processing departments should be built to bridge the gap between reprocessing techs and OR teams.

Skin Prep Pop Quiz. Test your knowledge on best practices for preventing surgical site infections.

Pentax Voluntarily Recalls ED-3490TK Video Duodenoscopes for Design and Labeling Changes. Pentax will replace the forceps elevator mechanism, O-rings and the distal end covering.

10 Tips for Effective Endoscope Reprocessing. Check out this expert advice to strengthen your flexible endoscope cleaning and disinfection practices.

Weighing Your Fluid Waste Disposal Options. Are you using the best method for your facility?

Is it time to serilize endoscopes? A much-needed higher standard may be on the horizon.

Infection prevention: don't define your reprocessors by their failures. Let your sterile processing department prove itself to you.

Is your cleaning barely scratching the surface? Tap into the science of surface disinfection to rid your rooms of infection-causing bioburden.

Study: <i>C. Diff</i> Transmission "Might Be More Likely to Occur" in Surgical Centers

Researchers study which alcohol hand rub dries fastest. Study compares liquid, gel and foam forms of isopropanol and ethanol formulations.