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Special Outpatient Surgery Edition - Infection Control - May 2018

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6 6 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • M A y Why did you launch the Beyond Clean podcast? There's a tremendous need for net- working and continuing education among sterile processing professionals across the globe. Podcasting lets us expand that reach by engaging listen- ers during their morning commutes or even while they're working. What bet- ter way to improve how they care for instruments than to have experts in their ear telling them how to do it well? What types of topics do you dis- cuss on the podcast? We've talked about ways the sterile pro- cessing department can collaborate with infection preventionists to what the future of instrument reprocessing will look like. Augmented reality (AR), for example, could have a big impact on the daily workload of technicians. They could wear AR glasses, which would scan a QR code on an instrument and display useful information in their field et Reprocessing Right With Every Tool, Every Time G Weston "Hank" Balch, CRCST, CER, CIS, CHL Instrument care expert and sterile processing podcaster

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