BOSTON (CBS) - Kids and germs go hand-in-hand, or when it comes to musical instruments, you could say mouth-to-mouth. That's why the Somerville music department carefully cleans school-owned ...

The Ophthalmic Instrument Cleaning and Sterilization Task Force released guidelines for the cleaning and sterilization of intraocular surgical instruments in ASCs. Here are five key insights. 1. The ...

SAN ANTONIO – The instruments that come into Brooke Army Medical Center's Sterile Processing and Distribution Division are used and dirty. "They're bloody. They're gunky," said LTC Patricia ...

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 ...

Northern Arizona Healthcare is reducing the number of surgeries performed at Flagstaff Medical Center, focusing on urgent and ...

TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 21, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SRI/Surgical Express, Inc. (SRI) (Nasdaq:STRC), a leading provider of reusable surgical products and reprocessing services supporting the healthcare ...

The Attest™ Super Rapid VH2O2 Clear Challenge Pack integrates biological and chemical performance indicators in a ready-to-use design to support every load monitoring 1 Attest™ Super Rapid VH2O2 Clear ...

Naval Medical Center San Diego confirmed Monday that it is delaying some surgeries at the facility as it investigates a discrepancy found in its surgical instrument sterilization process. The hospital ...

Torrance Memorial Medical Center voluntarily rescheduled 17 operations recently after a state public health survey team conducting an unannounced audit expressed concern about the hospital’s surgical ...

IRVINE, Calif., March 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP) announced today the availability of the EXPRESS Cycle for the STERRAD® 100NX™ System. This is the fastest ...