Proper management of resources as well efficient and effective cleaning, assembling and sterilizing of surgical instruments are imperative to a well functioning perioperative service line. Alpha ...

They are problems one hopes never to find in an operating room. Problems including bone-contaminated drill bits, broken or rusty surgical instruments, holes in sterile wrappers and a needle holder ...

Detroit Medical Center has received federal approval for a corrective action plan in response to a surprise inspection in January in which Medicare hospital inspectors found dirty instruments, lack of ...

POCATELLO — Following an investigation into unclean surgical tools, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare found that multiple surgical patients nearly came in contact with tissue fragments left ...

The Army’s premier medical center in San Antonio should not be tainted by dirty surgical tools. A Level I trauma center such as BAMC should not be turning away some transfers from other area hospitals ...

Children’s Hospital of Michigan failed a late January inspection conducted by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as part of a broad investigation into dirty surgical instruments at ...

Here are 10 factors affecting the efficacy of sterilization and their effects, as identified in the CDC’s “Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities.” 1. Cleaning* — ...

State regulators who last week cited the Detroit Medical Center for lax training failed to find problems with dirty surgical instruments during an inspection last year — even as surgeons were ...