COVID-19 indirectly dealt a death blow to FM Wound Care LLC, a 2016 spinoff from Michigan Technological University. Now, the people behind that company are working on bringing the technology it ...

Without the ability to sterilize instruments needed for surgeries, the incident management team started looking to other VA hospitals for help. For the past six weeks, Roudebush has been relying on VA ...

An overloaded cycle takes more time to get to temperature, and it inhibits the proper airflow needed for sterilization (think of what happens when you put too many clothes in your dryer). Each pack ...

A VA spokesman told 13News that the hospital has found a way to reduce the pH level of steam used to sterilize its surgical instruments, eliminating the brown and white spots that had caused concern.

Surgical instrument sterilization organizing systems come in different forms, shapes and sizes to fit various medical tools, including robotic accessories.

Problems with sterilizing medical instruments, like the Aurora VA hospital recently acknowledged, are relatively common in Colorado, but the decision to halt procedures isn’t so ordinary. The ...

The study was conducted by Messers S Letters, AJ Smith, S McHugh and J Bagg, who sent out questionnaires on the method of sterilization employed to 25 general dental practitioners.

Sterilizing equipment problem forces Providence Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital to divert surgery patients. The problem caused the hospital to postpone elective surgeries, Providence said, while ...

Workers prepare surgical instruments for sterilization at Brooke Army Medical Center’s Sterile Processing Department on Monday, July 24, 2023. Jerry Lara/San Antonio Express-News.