February 22, 2022
Ensuring that reusable medical devices can be properly cleaned, disinfected, and/or sterilized is imperative to ensure patient safety and to minimize healthcare-acquired infections, corrective actions, and recalls. Regulatory agencies and healthcare facilities are increasingly concerned about the spread of diseases,...
See BlogSeptember 1, 2021
Choosing a chemical disinfectant will depend on a combination of considerations with regards to the reprocessing instructions, location of the users, possible adverse effects on biocompatibility/patient safety and device materials. Reprocessing instructions A first consideration when selecting the proper disinfectant...
See BlogAugust 18, 2021
The ISO 17664 series[1][2] as well as the FDA guidance for reprocessing medical devices in health care settings[3] specify that processing instructions should include the required quality of any water that is used for preparing solutions or for rinsing. A...
See BlogJuly 15, 2021
Initial rinse The first step in the cleaning process is often a rinse with cool utility water to remove any remaining gross (large) debris from the medical devices[1]. This is an important step given that many organic soils, including proteinaceous...
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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