November 23, 2022
Dialysis machines have been used for decades to help improve the lives of people with kidney malfunctions. Developed in the 1930s, these machines have evolved to ensure the delivery of lifesaving solutions to patients who suffer from kidney complications. The...
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Reusable medical devices need to have validated cleaning instructions to ensure patient safety and minimize health-care-acquired infections, corrective actions, recalls, and to ensure compliance with current regulatory standards. For devices that need to comply with US FDA, the requirements regarding...
See BlogMay 5, 2021
ISO17664:2017 provides guidance on this issue and states that “At least one validated automated cleaning method (which may include a validated manual cleaning method as part of the automated cleaning validation) shall be specified unless the medical device cannot withstand...
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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...
See BlogOctober 15, 2014
Nelson Laboratories, Inc. Alpa Patel, senior scientist in healthcare reprocessing, presented at the annual American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) meeting last month on the topic of Equipment Cleaning and Disinfection Validations, something she calls, “the tissue industry’s compliance challenge.”...
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