Can You Pass This Decontamination Quiz? See how well you know all that your reprocessing techs need to know.

5 Innovations in Infection Prevention; To defeat the infectious invaders on the front lines of surgical care, you have to fight dirty.

On Point; No More Excuses

Combat Biofilm; Tips to prevent bacteria's slimy fortress from forming on your instruments.

Get Reprocessing Right With Every Tool, Every Time; Q&A with Weston "Hank" Balch, CRCST, CER, CIS, CHL, instrument care expert and sterile processing podcaster.

Make the Switch to Rigid Sterilization Containers; Do away with blue wrap for reprocessing high-volume instrument sets.

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.