Steam sterilization is a simple, advantageous, and widely used method in the fight against bacteria, fungi, viruses, and even spores. A steam sterilizer, commonly called an autoclave, uses steam ...

Researchers have determined four risk factors that may increase the incidence of immediate-use steam sterilization, according to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control.

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The Joint Commission has updated its position on flash sterilization and has outlined three critical steps to the flash sterilization process, according to a Joint Commission news release. Flash ...

Sign up for our FREE E-Weekly for more coverage like this sent to your inbox! The amendment to AAMI’s steam sterilization standard ST79 has an annex to help users ...

In January 2021, the American National Standards Institute and Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation released four amendments related to steam sterilization and sterility ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Immediate-use steam sterilization during orthopedic surgery may not increase surgical site infection rates among ...

A medical waste treatment system, which is capable of 99.9999 percent sterilization by using high-temperature and high-pressure steam, has been developed for the first time in the country. The Korea ...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of articles in which we will bring in an expert to address some of the misinformation we have read in various social ...