Sterile Processing Archives

Painful Pitfalls of Surgical Instrument Marking and How to Avoid Them

As advances in surgical techniques and procedures lead to increasingly specialized equipment, hospitals, and surgery centers...

Endoscope tracking systems are “clipboard killers” – or at least, that’s how Jacob Long, CCSVP, director...

Endoscopes have been used by practitioners as early as the 19th century to examine the inside...

At large health care facilities, it’s not uncommon for managers in the sterile processing department to...

Summer is here which means it’s time for gardening, fishing, camping, and outdoor projects. Along with...

You don’t need to go far to witness a major crisis currently impacting all areas of...

Advances in technology and research have brought to life many surgical procedures that once seemed impossible....

Surgical instrument inventories come in all shapes and sizes, which is why it’s important to have...

You clock in for another workday and change into your hospital shoes and scrubs. A quick...

Sterile processing technicians and operating room (OR) staff have complex, important and demanding jobs. They rely...

So you’re new to CensiTrac and you may be wondering what comes next with your instrument...

Valuable recommendations to help keep your non-compliance rates down.