The Joint Commission issued an explanation of its sterile supply storage area temperature and humidity standard. 1. Large sterile supply storage spaces must have a temperature and humidity program.
Improving sterile supply management is one way hospitals can reduce the risk of infections and infection-related readmissions for their patients. Hospitals and other healthcare facilities may have ...
WASHINGTON — Investigators found stained surgical equipment and a surgery had to be halted at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Washington Wednesday because staff lacked equipment, indicating patients ...
Veterans Affairs reassigned the director of its medical center in Washington, D.C., after a scathing report revealed dirty sanitary storage areas, more than $150 million in unaccounted for equipment ...
The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology ...
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 ...
2. Observing best-practice standards is essential for cleaning properly and preventing infections. Following best practices for each step in the orthopedic reprocessing cycle, from point-of-use in the ...
Halicarcinus cookii is a small intertidal New Zealand crab that has high levels of ovigerous females in all months. Continuous breeding requires continuous mating. Mating is not linked to moulting ...
Tjoapack is expanding its sterile packaging and cold chain storage capabilities in the United States and Europe.
The OIG is continuing to survey conditions at the medical center. — -- Sterile supplies kept in dirty facilities, crucial equipment left out of stock, $15 million worth of untracked materials and ...
Symbiosis Expands Sterile Manufacturing Capacity with Fill/Finish Line Qualification  Stirling, UK - 30th September 2025: Symbiosis Pharmaceutical Services (Symbiosis), a global contract manufacturing ...