Inspect instruments and trays for tears ... are afraid to say something due to repercussions from an angry surgeon or surgical team. Changing gloves, gowns or the sterile field can delay the procedure ...

The increasing availability of Single-Use, Sterile, Pre-Packaged (SSP) surgical instruments and implants provides an unprecedented opportunity for cost savings due to increased surgery throughput ...

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a move poised to significantly elevate standards within Sterile Processing ... to meticulously track instruments throughout the entire surgical workflow provides invaluable ...

On Monday, five sets of contaminated surgical ... facility’s sterile processing problems — by giving the unit’s workers breathing room to catch up on sterilizing dirty instrument sets ...

Sterile processing technicians maintain ... a company that helps train people to join the health care field, said jobs in surgical instrument sterilization can be a great start to other higher ...

A surgical team member ... the military hospital’s Sterile Processing Department, responsible for cleaning and sterilizing thousands of instruments each day, sent five more sets to the operating ...

Executives at Roudebush quickly decided to suspend operations at the hospital’s Sterile Processing Service (SPS) once the sterilization problem was discovered on April 10. The SPS oversees ...