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Preventing Cross-Contamination through Disinfecting & Cleaning Surgical Instruments

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Patient safety, surgical departments discovered, comes at a cost. Duodenoscopes are complicated instruments with many small parts, but cross-contamination occurs in all kinds of surgical instruments. The reprocessing of surgical instruments begins with cleaning. Hospitals found that they needed 3.4 Impingement.