D
oes your central sterile team follow recommended
practices and evidence-based guidelines when it comes
to decontaminating surgical instruments? If the results
of a recent survey of 105 Outpatient Surgery readers
are any indication, it wouldn't hurt your team to brush
up on these basics.
Cleaning and rinsing instruments does notremove all visible and non-
visible debris.
One-third of our survey respondents didn't know this, pointing to an
overall lack of knowledge about the importance of each step in the
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O U T PAT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | January 2015
8 Common Misconceptions
About Instrument
Decontamination
Mary a. Hillanbrand, DnP, rn, CnOr, CCnS, CnS-CP | Bethesda, Md.
The right way to get items ready for sterilization.