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Hospital Forced To Cancel Surgeries For A Week Due to Contaminated Instruments

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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PATIENT HARM CAUSED BY IMPROPER/INADEQUATE INTRUMENT REPROCESSING

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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Hospital Forced To Cancel Surgeries For A Week Due to Contaminated Instruments

PATIENT HARM CAUSED BY IMPROPER/INADEQUATE INTRUMENT REPROCESSING

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