Infection Prevention: The Instrument Whisperer Has Spoken; Tips on dealing with instrument repair and maintenance.

Can You Pass This Decontamination Quiz? See how well you know all that your reprocessing techs need to know.

Do You Care to Clear the Air? Can new airflow and air purification products help solve the drawbacks of traditional ceiling-to-floor laminar airflow?

How We Lowered Our SSI Rate; When we saw a spike in infections, here's how we addressed it.

5 Innovations in Infection Prevention; To defeat the infectious invaders on the front lines of surgical care, you have to fight dirty.

Infection Prevention; Rewriting the Rules of Cataract Reprocessing

Scratch Beneath the Surface; Audit the effectiveness of OR cleaning by taking a big-picture view of the entire process.

Stop the Spread of MRSA; Nasal decolonization is a practical way to lower infection risks.

Patient Warming Stops SSIs Cold; Maintaining normothermia promotes wound healing and helps reduce infection risks.

A Look Inside Low-Temp Sterilization; 6 points to keep in mind about reprocessing heat-sensitive instruments.

Make the Switch to Rigid Sterilization Containers; Do away with blue wrap for reprocessing high-volume instrument sets.

Get Reprocessing Right With Every Tool, Every Time; Q&A with Weston "Hank" Balch, CRCST, CER, CIS, CHL, instrument care expert and sterile processing podcaster.

Combat Biofilm; Tips to prevent bacteria's slimy fortress from forming on your instruments.

On Point; No More Excuses

5 Ways to Standardize Skin Prepping Practices; Applying preps the same way every time eliminates the variables that increase infection risk.

Are Your Endoscopes Really Clean? Are Your Endoscopes Really Clean?

Twice the Protection; Double gloving prevents injury and infection, so why aren't more surgical teams doing it?

Rev Up Your Reprocessing Room; 8 exciting high-tech advances on the horizon for your facility's instrument hub.

By targeting our most vulnerable patients, we dramatically reduced SSIs.

A Smarter Way to Sterilize Instruments - Sterile processing departments should be built to bridge the gap between reprocessing techs and OR teams.