January 20, 2021
Medical device reprocessing, and the scientific validation of reprocessing instructions, are critical steps to ensuring devices are safe and effective for patient use. The pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for COVID-19, as...
See BlogDecember 16, 2020
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in severe shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) necessary to protect front-line healthcare personnel. These shortages underscore the urgent need for simple, efficient, and inexpensive methods to decontaminate SARS-CoV-2-exposed PPE enabling safe...
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August 19, 2019
Validating cleaning instructions for a tray of reusable orthopedic devices is an important milestone on the path to obtaining FDA clearance for those devices. Although the process of validation can seem daunting at first, medical device manufacturers seeking to successfully...
See BlogDecember 12, 2016
Last week, Alpa Patel, Senior Scientist at Nelson Laboratories, and Kaumudi Kulkarni, Manager of Research and Development at Healthmark Industries, hosted the live webinar Endoscope Microbial Surveillance Testing Made Easy. The webinar was attended live by infection prevention professionals, sterile...
See BlogJuly 29, 2016
Consideration of human factors when designing a medical device should be a high priority. It is important that concerns regarding human factors are considered during the development phase of new medical devices. For many years, this phase of the process...
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