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Follow reprocessing guidelines for Inspection and cleaning Decontamination/disinfection Processing/re-processing Storage Distribution Use decontamination products to break down bioburden Follow medical device manufacturers' recommendations for cleaning/disinfection of instruments/medical devices
When choosing instrumentation/medical devices for purchase, consider: Equipment needed to process/re-process Special solutions needed Device complexity: can it be disassembled? Flushed? Immersed? Number of uses (some devices are semi-disposable) Time needed to re-process Special sterilization requirements (steam, plasma, EO/ETO, etc.) Becki Harter, CST, CRCST, is president and CEO of Indianapolis-based consulting firm Sterilization By Design, Inc., extracted November 2012, http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/articles/2003/04/bioload-doesn-t-have-to-be-aburden.aspx
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