Kryptonite for superbugs. 3 surefire ways to strengthen your infection prevention protocols to neutralize antimicrobial-resistant bacteria.

Lessons in Lumened instrument cleaning. Follow these tips to ensure reprocessing's critical first step is performed correctly each and every time.

Inside our journey to zero SSIs. It took evidence-based practices and hard work to eliminate infections.

Get buy-in for bundles to reduce infection risks. Q&A with Chad Buhs, MD, surgeon champion of SSI prevention.

Infection prevention: 3 surgical attire battles worth fighting for. Breaks in these safe attire practices could harm patients.

Endoscope reprocessing gone wrong. Recent outbreaks shine light on the dirty truth about the scope cleaning practices at facilities across the country.

Hand hygiene for tour nose. Nasal decolonization gave our existing infection control protocols a boost -- without using antibiotics.

Is that scope clean? No guarantees. Even rigorous by-the-book cleaning doesn't ensure that your flexible endoscopes will be free of bacteria and bioburden when you hang them to dry.

Redesign & reinvent your reprocessing room. The central sterile department at St. Cloud Hospital is a high-tech, staff-friendly wonder.

Sprays and wipes could degrade plastics over time. The repeated use of "incompatible" cleaning products could be harming medical devices.

Thinking of Buying ... Whole-room disinfection systems? Automated units reach the surfaces that manual cleaning misses.

Which is better: wrapped instrument trays or sealed containers? Two sterile processing managers debate the merits of fabric and metal sterilization packaging systems.

Surgical skin antisepsis done right. 10 tips for ensuring that patients begin their surgical procedure with an aseptic surgical site.

Infection prevention: The quest for competent sterile processors. It's a dirty job, but it's got to be done right. Here's how you can help.

Are you following the new scope reprocessing guidelines? Review these 7 takeaways from the most recent guidance to find out for sure.

Make room in your budget for whole-room disinfection. Mobile robots hunt down and destroy even the hardiest of multidrug-resistant organisms.

The nose knows: Stop staph where it lurks. For a small cost, nasal decolonization can pack a big punch in the fight against SSIs.

Where's the love? How to nurture a healthy central sterile supply-OR relationship.

Drug-resistant fungus linked to 4 deaths in U.S. hospitals. The CDC says Candida auris has been identified in a total of 13 cases here.

Study: Patient warming doesn't prevent SSIs in clean wound surgery. Researchers find intraoperative hypothermia not significantly associated with SSIs.