The High Risks of High-Touch Surfaces; How do you assess cleanliness when a visually clean item can still harbor contamination?
The Shift From Disinfection to Sterilization; We overhauled our GI scope reprocessing process in pursuit of our ultimate goal: to eliminate high-level disinfection.
New Ideas for Preventing Endophthalmitis; Intracameral antibiotics, proven to lower the rate of infection substantially, are catching on.
Infection Prevention: The Instrument Whisperer Has Spoken; Tips on dealing with instrument repair and maintenance.
Infection Prevention: Zero Infections and Counting; Small improvements made a big difference in this hospital's quest to eliminate surgical site infections.
How We Lowered Our SSI Rate; When we saw a spike in infections, here's how we addressed it.
Do You Care to Clear the Air? Can new airflow and air purification products help solve the drawbacks of traditional ceiling-to-floor laminar airflow?
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.
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?
Make the Switch to Rigid Sterilization Containers; Do away with blue wrap for reprocessing high-volume instrument sets.
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.
Combat Biofilm; Tips to prevent bacteria's slimy fortress from forming on your instruments.
On Point; No More Excuses
5 Ways to Standardize Skin Prepping Practices; Applying preps the same way every time eliminates the variables that increase infection risk.
Patient Warming Stops SSIs Cold; Maintaining normothermia promotes wound healing and helps reduce infection risks.
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.
Infection Prevention; Rewriting the Rules of Cataract Reprocessing