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Stop, Lock, and Roll: The Upside to Locking Things Down in Your SPD

“Knock, knock.” “Who’s there?” “Doris.” “Doris who?” “Doris locked, that’s why I had to knock.” As a department that lives and works behind the red line, we understand the value of controlling our surroundings in sterile processing. We keep the pass-through window closed in the decontamination area to keep the air pressure negative and the…

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When It’s My Surgery: Fear, Trust, and Our Sterile Processing Moment

On this CE-approved release of Articles-On-The-Go, Hank Balch examines what it’s like to be on the “other” side of the instrument, and to experience surgery as a patient…”Ultimately, I was confronted with only one choice — trust the process. I had…

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