During a June webinar hosted by Becker’s Hospital Review and sponsored by Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP), sterilization expert Nancy Fellows, RN, MSN, senior clinical education consultant for ...

Since sterilization of surgical instruments is a key component of patient safety and infection prevention, ambulatory surgery centers must take extra caution and ensure sterilization is performed in ...

Rice University students and their mentors have created a sterilization station for surgical instruments that can help minimize risk of infections to patients anywhere in the world. The station built ...

Vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) failed to completely sterilize surgical tools 76 percent of the time when the tools were soiled with salts or blood and not cleaned prior to sterilization, according ...

Scalpels, scissors and other surgical instruments usually resigned to poorly lit hospital basements for cleaning now have their own sterilization building at Ohio State. Kim Jones, director of Central ...

An investigation at Carilion Roanoke (Va.) Memorial Hospital revealed sterilization issues with surgical equipment that reportedly occurred between March and September 2023, Cardinal News reported ...

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Correction: This story has been updated to correct a quote from Eric Evans, the president of hospital operations for Tenet Healthcare Corp. The Detroit Medical Center’s problems with dirty surgical ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Nearly 1% of all surgical instruments in hospitals nationwide are rejected before they get to the operating room. They’re screened for blemishes left over from the sterilization ...