Discussions in Infection Control

An independent site by Lawrence F Muscarella PhD -- a national authority on the causes and prevention of healthcare-associated infections and related errors.

Category: Instrument Reprocessing

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Recommendations to Prevent Infections Associated with Improperly Reprocessed Reusable Medical Equipment

February 27, 2013 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

January 3, 2013 — This article by Lawrence F Muscarella, PhD, discusses a number of infection-control breaches identified at several medical facilities within the past few years. This article acknowledges…

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Isolation Precautions for the Prevention of the Transmission of Ebola, Enterovirus-D68 and Other Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings

January 16, 2013 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

October 10, 2013 — This article discusses the two primary types of Isolation Precautions: (i) Standard Precautions and (ii) Transmission-based Precautions (which include Contact Precautions, Droplet Precautions and Airborne Precautions).…

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