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What Happened in Vegas: A Story About the Heart of Sterile Processing in the Midst of Tragedy-Dwayne Taylor

On October 1, 2017 a gunman opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers on Route 91 in Las Vegas, Nevada. 10 minutes later the deadliest mass shooting in US history had transpired within the blink of an eye. Little did this week’s podcast guest know that…

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Thinking Inside the Box: New FDA Claims on Multiple Tray Sterilization Technology

It stands a little over five feet tall, increases sterilization efficiencies and saves time and money. Yes, it could be your new best friend- it’s the SteriCUBE and on this week’s release of the Beyond Clean Vendor Spotlight series, we talk to…

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Mold In The Healthcare Environment: Keeping Patients and Staff Safe

With the tragic turn of events at Seattle Children’s Hospital, the subject of mold in healthcare environments has taken front-and-center stage all across the country. It’s important to understand that there is always a little mold everywhere indoors – in the air and on most surfaces. Mold spores are brought into the building through various…

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A Winning Plan: Making Process Improvement Possible – Marjorie Wall

When a problem strikes in Sterile Processing or the Operating Room that puts a patient at risk, the knee jerk reaction is to what? To fire the person responsible. On this Season 7 Rewind episode, we talked with a mathematics major on a full…

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ISO Certification for SPD Departments & AAMI/ASTM Updates: Ralph Basile

Regulators want it, healthcare facilities want it, medical device manufacturers want it…what if surgical instrument validation was actually geared toward a specific standard protocol? This re-released Season 1 episode features one of the biggest…

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Third Party Instrument Repair: AMDSO & “The Right to Repair” Debate

Surgical instrument repair questions are such an important part of everything that we do as sterile processing professionals. David Anbari joins us to talk about preventative maintenance, accessibility and the mobile aspect of third party repair…

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Smart Data: The Key to Effective Change Management in the Operating Room

Picture this: your hospital has access to a magic button that would reduce SPD volume by up to 100 trays per week and reduce tray sizes by over 35%. Sound too good to be true? On this release of the Beyond Clean Vendor Spotlight series, we talk…

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One Book to Rule Them All: 5 Creative Ways to Read the AAMI Standards and Not Get Bored

There’s a running joke in literary circles about books that few people have ever read, but every one pretends to  — books like Moby Dick, War and Peace, Atlas Shrugged, and Les Misérables. One reason few of us have ventured to complete these reads is that the books themselves are MASSIVE, and, some may argue, at times, a little…um…boring.  But what about…

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