The new standard in endoscope reprocessing. A new national guideline offers clear advice for proper high-level disinfection.

5 tips for better instrument decontamination. Removing variables and automating the process are the keys to better cleaning.

Burning platforms, coordinated care and SSI prevention. Q&A with Zeev Kain, MD, PhD, anesthesiologist and perioperative surgical home proponent.

Look beneath the surface. Take an in-depth look at how you disinfect your clinical environment.

Making sure it's sterile. Sterilization assurance confirms what you can't see.

The link between warming and wound infections. The latest evidence shows that hypothermia during surgery is associated with greater infection risk.

Failing grades in hand hygiene and injection safety. Hand hygiene, safe-injection practices sorely lacking at outpatient facilities. Study finds high failure rates in both areas.

Infection Prevention: Housekeepers are your SSI foot soldiers. A dedicated cleaning crew is the first line of defense against infections.

A day in the life of an endoscope. Your scopes are flexible. Your reprocessing standards shouldn't be.

Disinfect whole rooms at a time. UV light and airborne solutions attack surfaces that manual cleaning might have missed.

Rare brain disease detected in patient. Arkansas facility reopens after a possible diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Are you committing these common lapses in infection prevention? These are most likely to saddle you with a CMS citation.

Taxing Question: Is it an ASC or part of a hospital? A bundle of cash is riding on the designation.

Pearls to prevent cross-contamination. Infection preventionists share their top SSI threats and what you can do to stop them.

Infection Prevention: Improving your antibiotic prescribing. Nurses can prevent antibiotic overuse by becoming stewards.

Squeaky clean surgical instruments. Pearls and pointers from a sterile processing department that disinfects tens of thousands of trays a year.

Practical pearls for surface disinfection. Deploy the proper cleaning agents to eradicate infective agents on your surfaces.

Infection Prevention: 5 bad infection habits to break. These common practices might do more harm than good to your patients.

Dirty duodenoscopes were a preventable risk. Senate report slams scope makers, FDA, hospitals for slow outbreak response.

Lower the risk of joint infections. 5 infection prevention strategies to prevent SSIs in at-risk patients.