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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan on Thursday said he “dramatically cut the problems” with dirty or missing surgical instruments when he was president and CEO of the Detroit Medical Center. In his first ...

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 ...

Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta had to use bottled water for drinking and cooking, but didn’t have to move instrument sterilization after a water main broke June 27. The main break, which ...