Large autoclaves are essential to every hospital’s functionality. As we learned in our post about preventing the spread of infections in hospitals, the autoclave, also called a stea…

Weston “Hank” Balch, director of Sterile Processing Operations at KentuckyOne Health, asserts in the following article that we are now living in the Age of Sterile Processing. …

In recent years we have all seen the news articles and programs about problems with medical devices that were used on patients that were not adequately cleaned. Inadequate cleaning …

The CSSD, the Central Sterile Services Department, is the hospital’s central nervous system, where the battle against infection takes place. Here surgical instruments are readied fo…