| Medical Automatic Washers |
Below you will find many article that deal with helping you understand the role your Medical Automatic Washer plays in reducing infections. Just think back a few years ago about the news about a hospital using something other than cleaning solutions to clean instruments. Here is that follow up. Duke settles hydraulic fluid case; new lawsuits filed against Cardinal, Steris Duke University Health System (Durham, NC) settled claims by patients who in 2004 were operated on at Durham Regional Hospital (Durham, NC) and Duke Health Raleigh Hospital (Raleigh, NC) using surgical instruments mistakenly cleaned with used hydraulic fluid. Details of the settlement were not disclosed. Following the settlement, an additional lawsuit with 67 plaintiffs was filed in Durham County Superior Court against distributor Cardinal Health (Dublin, OH) and Steris Corp (Mentor, OH), which made the sterilization washers used in the hospitals to clean surgical equipment, as well as the detergent and other products used in the process. Cardinal Health employees, several of whom were also named as defendants, allegedly should have been able to tell that the barrels that originally held detergent had been used for another purpose, and should not have returned them to the company for resale.(6/08). Now another report in Texas states " residents alerted to improperly washed surgical tools "was just reported by Ann Work a reporter for the Times Record News. Read the complet story at this link. http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2008/jun/25/dirty-bits-and-pieces/ My point is cleaning is a process and it should be monitored just like any other process. My hope is that these and other articles will help hospitals improve their cleaning process. I welcome your feedback. |
| Is your Medical Automatic Washer Safe ? |
In 2/06 I wrote an article that appered in Infection Control Today about the issues that deal with Medical Automatic Washers and that if not monitored on a regual time frame issues will arise and patients can possibly be harmed. Click on the link and read the article. http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/articles/412/412_621feat3.html |
