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Creating Adequate Reprocessing Instruction Help Reduce Healthcare Acquired Infections

April 13, 2017

This may lead you to question what causes these infections? The answer can sometimes be difficult to trace, but numerous studies have identified caregiver’s hand hygiene as one of the major sources of infection. Catheters, central lines and surgical sites are also major sources of infection. Another player is reusable medical devices. This includes surgical equipment, dental hand pieces, nebulizers, flexible and rigid endoscopes, ultrasound probes and transducers, but also less obvious equipment such as monitors, overhead lights in a surgical suite, bed rails in a hospital room, stethoscopes, blood pressure cuffs, ventilators, and pulsometers used to test oxygen levels.

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Creating Adequate Reprocessing Instruction Help Reduce Healthcare Acquired Infections