Elmed

MARCH 10, 2021

On May 10, 2018 Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver, Colorado had to cancel all surgeries for a week due to contaminated surgical instruments being found in the O.R. Recent infection control lapses due to non-compliance with recommended reprocessing procedures highlight a critical gap in patient safety.” after reprocessing.

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Elmed

APRIL 21, 2021

In an earlier blog we examined the report on a Denver hospital that had a large outbreak of contaminated surgical instruments (Elmed blog 47, March 10, 2021). This tragic event caused a lot of significant, painful and costly consequences to the hospital and their patients. after reprocessing.1 after reprocessing.1

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Elmed

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Recent infection control lapses due to non-compliance with recommended reprocessing procedures highlight a critical gap in patient safety.” 1 Regretfully, even after this major Health Alert Advisory from the CDC, we have continued to see reports of contaminated instruments causing canceled surgeries, patient harm and even patient deaths.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2017

We’re entering an era of metrics for physicians, in which the government and hospital systems will collect data to monitor quality and performance. Their patients are obtunded on arrival to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) after surgery, and they rely on the PACU nursing staff to complete the job of anesthesia wake up.

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