Bedside Cleaning
Device Classifications
Device Contamination
Disease Transmission
Disinfection
Endoscope Reprocessing
Escherichia coli
Flexible "ENT" Laryngoscopes
Hepatitis (B and C) Viruses
High-Level Disinfection
Infection Prevention
Instrument Drying
Intermediate-Level Disinfection
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Rigid Laryngoscopes
Semicritical Devices
Serratia spp.
Sheaths
Sterilization
California Health Alert: Failure to Disinfect Reusable Semicritical Instrumentation Poses an Increased Risk of Infection
September 16, 2013 — In 2007 the Health and Human Services Agency Department of Health Services for the state of California advised facility administrators and infection prevention and control professionals,…