Michael
Stronger Together: Why Your City/Region and State Needs a Sterile Processing Association
(I dedicate this post to Vermont, Nebraska, Louisiana, Alabama, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii, and every CS professional who feels alone. We have not forgotten you…) Sterile Processing excellence is a team sport. True, there are some departments and leaders out there who have locked their department doors from the inside, and given everything…
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Loaner Tray Taxes
Recently, a hospital system announced they would be charging $100 per loaner tray delivered. This approach certainly shines a spotlight on a complex challenge and forces a serious conversation between all parties – which I love to see. However, this policy treats a symptom, not the disease. Vendors object that they are providing this equipment…
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Conductivity & Total Dissolved Solids: What Do They Tell Us?
Conductivity is defined as the amount of electrical current that can be passed across a 1 cm gap between two electrodes at a potential difference of one volt. One microsiemen/cm means that you can pass one microamp across this gap (Sorry, every now and then, the physical chemist in me comes out). So what does…
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