Below you will find articles that the CPDGUY was either the sole author or a co-author. The articles range from  perfusion to cleaning instruments and just about everything in-between.

Some articles have a direct link to a page on the Internet, so just click right on them and go. Other articles  are linked to Adobe files (pdf). So click on the file  to open the article.

The Study Guide # 64 on Benchmarking is called Best Practices to Improve Central Sergvice is based  upon Stephen M. Kovach presentation at the 1998 Fall IAHCSMM meeting.

Solving Central Service Concerns using Computers

The Internet means more than e-commerce

Parametric Release from a Hospital Perspective. This manuscript is based on a lecture given by Stephen M. Kovach at the 5th World Symposium on Central Service in Hospitals in Orlando, Flordia, U.S.A.  in May of 1999. The file is in Abode

Parametric Release.pdf (632.87 KB)

This article appeared in Infection Control & Sterilization Technology in March, 1995.  The article deals with implementing an event-related sterility maintenance policy. The file is in Abode

Implementing an event related sterility maintance policy.pdf (293.2 KB)

Volume 16, Number 2, Summer 1984: The Journal of extra-Corporeal Technology. Use of In-Line Venous Oxygen Saturation to Predict Post Bypass Cardiac Output.. This file is in Abdoe.

Venous Saturation.pdf (128.04 KB)

SHEA - 6th Annual Meeting- April 21-23,1996. Official Abstract - Impact of variation in reprocessing invasive fiberscopes on patient outcomes.This is an Abode file.

Impact of Variation in Reproceing Invasive Fiberoptics Scopes on Patient Outcomes SHEA Abstract 496.pdf (54.05 KB)