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Helping Hand - July 2019 - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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fied arthroscopic shavers as a decontamination challenge and demon- strated to OR staff how to disassemble removable parts and apply enzymatic cleaner to exposed surfaces in the OR. 2 Manual cleaning in the SPD. Once instruments arrive in the SPD, they are sorted, inspected and disassembled as required by the IFU. For certain delicate instruments, manual cleaning may be the only cleaning that occurs because they cannot withstand the mechanical washing process. Some facilities may not have mechanical washers and thus rely solely on manual cleaning. Manual cleaning generally begins with rinsing gross debris off the instruments, then immersing instruments in enzymatic detergent solu- tions adhering to the solution's IFU recommendations. All cannulated 1 0 4 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • J U L Y 2 0 1 9

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