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cies and procedures on sterilization,
containment, transport, decontamination and flash sterilization.
We revised our instrument cleaning
and decontamination policy to include
information regarding the elimination of
bioburden and removal of gross soil as
essential steps in preparing for any sterilization by any method. OR staff aren't
exempt from this policy — they're
charged with the following to ensure
that instruments with caked-on debris
won't bring central sterile's rapid
turnover efforts to a halt:
• Keep instruments moist until the
cleaning process begins to avoid drying of debris and denatured ophthalmic viscosurgical devices.
• Remove all debris, including viscoelastic solution.
• Don't let viscoelastic solution, which
can dry and harden within minutes,
dry on the instruments.
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• Immediately after use in the OR, wipe
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