Sterile processing & infection control blog — page 3

Many patients visiting your office is great for business but can result in an increased risk of infection if you are overloading your autoclave. Having an additional autoclave as a backup will help your clinical team to avoid overloading the primary autoclave and avoiding issues and frustrations.

Infection control has been a crucial part of your practices' safety and healthcare standards and is strongly related to proper disinfection and sterilization. Sterilization can prevent cross contamination and disease transformation that happen in all medical practices.

Detergents are designed to simplify your work by eliminating manual washing and reducing your manpower. Ensuring the safety of your patients by providing consistent quality washing cycles at all times.

Most dental offices understand that instrument reprocessing is an area that can have frequent infection control breaches. This post analyzes how to use the different kinds of chemical indicators for that purpose.

This article will provide clinicians with helpful suggestions for an efficient and consistent process, or flow, with the instrument processing cycle. Sometimes the clinical day is not as smooth as it could be.

Laboratory autoclaves are designed for research institutes, universities, microbiological, food, and chemical labs. These autoclaves must provide high quality, dependable performance that will allow for the smooth operation of life science cutting-edge research and enable safe sample testing.

In the technologically advanced world we live in today, how are medical devices keeping up? In this post we will review the development of technology and advancement within the sterilization equipment.

In the world of steam sterilizers, it is useful to debunk some seemingly critical terms. In this article, we will make these suggestions!

There is a very real risk associated with viral transmission in the dental office. It is the responsibility of dentists to ensure they are well versed in preventative measures for the safety of themselves, their staff and patients. It is important now more than ever during the Coronavirus pandemic to receive the proper guidance with regards to reducing your overall risk within your daily dental practice routine, especially when it comes to instrument reprocessing.