04/02/15
Every year Nelson Laboratories tests and validates thousands of medical devices. One particular family of reusable medical devices, endoscopes, can present unique challenges for manufacturers and healthcare reprocessing facilities. Responding to recent attention on reusable endoscopes, particularly the reusable duodenoscopes...
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05/15/14
By Alpa Patel, Department Scientist-Healthcare Reprocessing I recently attended the 10th Annual FDA and Changing Paradigm for HCT/P Regulation Conference, with my colleague Wendy Wangsgard, Department Scientist, Bioburden. We presented topics of interest that have surfaced the validation realm, in...
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05/14/14
By Emily Mitzel, Laboratory Manager On April 14-16, 2014, I attended the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) semi-annual Sterilization Standards Meeting. These Association meetings, and the standards discussed during them, have a major impact on medical device...
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