INFECTION PREVENTION
BY JOHN KIMSEY AND DAWN PFEIFFER, RN, CASC, CAIP | APRIL 2025
Sterile processing sits at the heart of the ASC support structure and directly impacts the center’s ability to succeed. Whether you are living with your current sterile processing department (SPD), renovating existing space or looking to build new, every ASC should ask two questions about its SPD.
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BY ALISON SONSTELIE | MAY 2021
ASC employees often wear multiple hats and fill multiple roles that are normally individualized at larger facilities. In some cases, surgery centers have tight reprocessing areas or limited equipment, tools or chemistries to reprocess devices. Having access to the most updated instructions for use (IFU) is critical for success in this field and these situations.
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BY TAMMERIA TYLER, RN | NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2020
My, how things have changed in a year. Last year, some of my biggest concerns were checking to see if any of our patients had acquired a surgical site infection (SSI), monitoring hand hygiene among the staff, physicians and vendors and observing what was going on in the surgical area itself.
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