TY - JOUR
AB - PERIOP BRIEFING EDITORIAL Kelly Putnam, Managing Editor atient infections arising from contaminated Preventive measures for every OR endoscopes alarmed the OR community Perioperative personnel across specialties can P in 2015, leading to a slew of new research, apply the lessons learned from contaminated guidelines, and policies to improve patient safety. flexible endoscopes and heater-cooler units; even Contamination of medical devices continues to at a facility where personnel have not encountered occur in ORs, with heater-cooler units becoming contamination issues or may not use these specific the one of the latest devices to ignite a flurry of pieces of equipment, the takeaways are relevant concerns among infection preventionists and to all surgical care. To help minimize the risk of perioperative personnel. contaminated devices and patient infections at their facilities, perioperative personnel should While writing about the concerns over contaminated • regularly implement standardized visual heater-cooler units for this month’s lead feature inspection and cleaning protocols to prevent article, I was struck by some of the issues that apply contamination, to both flexible endoscope and heater-cooler unit • reach out to manufacturers to verify the most contamination. In both instances, the structure of the up-to-date instructions for use and cleaning of 
TI - A closer look at medical device contamination
JF - AORN Journal
DO - 10.1016/S0001-2092(16)30380-5
DA - 2016-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/a-closer-look-at-medical-device-contamination-RCCTyb8NM8
SP - P4
EP - P4
VL - 104
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -