@cbspd

cbspd has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in April 2021. The social media accounts linked to from cbspd are: • Facebook • Instagram • Email Besides social media accounts, cbspd has populated their site with: • Extended Cycle Times • Automation in the Sterile Processing Department • High Cost of SPD Leadership Turnover—and How to Prevent It • Why Water Quality in Sterile Processing Departments is Now a Top Priority • Pioneering Advances in Sterilization: The Future of Infection Control • Smart Handling of Scopes Saves Time and Money While Safeguarding Care • Routine Sterilizer Maintenance Vital for Effective Operation • Every-Load Monitoring in Low-Temperature Sterilization: A Solution to Device Complexity and Failure Risks • APIC Seeks IFU Overhaul • Standardize Flexible Endoscope Care • An Infection Preventionist Considers Why Manufacturers Need to Update IFUs • Sticky Residue: A Possible Contaminant That Shouldn’t Be Overlooked • Under Pressure: PSI and “Instrument Air” Drying • Devices & Instruments - Healthcare Hygiene magazine • The 3Ps of Cleaning in Sterile Processing: People, Processes and Products • Tips for Point of Use (POU) Pre-Treatment Success • Magnetized Surgical Instruments • Unraveling Prions: A Critical Guide for Health Care Workers to Combat Rare Diseases • The Sterile Processing Department Digital Transformation • Understanding AAMI ST108:2023: Essential Guide to New Water Quality Standards in Health Care • Here’s What Sterile Processing Professionals Have on their Manufacturer IFU Wish Lists • Navigating AAMI ST91: Enhancing Patient Safety in Endoscope Processing • Validated IFUs vs. Visual Inspection • Endoscope Reprocessing Challenges • SPD Ergonomics Planning Worth the Effort & Investment • Don’t Sweat Your Next SPD Survey, read more here. • Ultrasonic Cleaners: A Game-Changer for ASCs • What Happens in Transit Doesn’t Stay in Transit, Read more here. • The changing landscape of sterile processing storage and containment. Read more here.. • From Overlooked to Empowered, read more here. • Testing Scissors - Part 1 • Collaboration Boosts SPD Hand-Hygiene Compliance • Best Practices Beat Fast Processes Every Time, Manual Versus Automated Device Instrument Cleaning. • Navigating case carts, kits, and trays in the surgical services setting. • Critical Factors for Sterile Processing Quality and Effectiveness • SPD and OR Leaders: Don’t Muddle the Huddle • The Essentials: The Foundation of Top-Quality Instrument Care • Safe Ergonomics in the SPD • Updated Hand Hygiene Recommendation: How It Affects SPD • 13 Work Burnout Symptoms » How To Deal with Burnout - 100% • The Ups and Downs of SPD from 2022 to 2023, 2023 SPD Salary Survey • Integrity Inspection/Testing Practices Critical to Preventing Insulation Damage in Sterile Processing • What Is in the Lumen? • Interdisciplinary collaboration drives process improvement, error reduction and SPD/OR satisfaction • SPD Impact Zone: SPD Key to OR Efficiency and Quality • Reaching for the Stars: Turn Your Weaknesses Into Successes • Don't Be A Tool, read more here. • Seamless Flexible Endoscope Care • Updated ANSI/AAMI ST91: progress to date and challenges faced one year later. • Benefits Abound When Surgeons Are Oriented to the SPD • Mission Improcessable, read more here. • See It Clearly: Central Sterile Processing’s Role in Reprocessing Eye Devices • A•MAZE•ZING Endoscope Care: Navigating the complex cycle of endoscope sterilization. • What’s in your endoscope? Proper inspection, brushing, documentation critical to patient safety. • The QUALITEAM! Best practices get best results when applied with best efforts. Read more here. • Prioritize Point-of-Use Instrument Care, Read more here. • Battling Biofilm: It Takes a Team Approach • For safety, effectiveness, SPD’s endgame must be cut and dried • ST98: New Standard in Medical Device Cleaning Spotlights ‘Clean’ for Manufacturers • How can SPD address the patient safety gap with flexible endoscopes? Read more here. • How Far Do Water Droplets From Sterile Processing Procedures Travel? • Give Sterile Processing Team, Profession the Recognition They Deserve • Is That Instrument Safe To Use On A Patient? • The case for conformity, collaboration in managing case carts. Read more here. • What’s on the Horizon for healthcare delivery organizations (HDO) Sterilization Guidance? Read more here. • Heavy trays, towels and moisture (Part 2), read more here. • Neither here nor there It’s the “how,” not the “where,” that determines reprocessing success. • Heavy trays, towels and moisture: Part 1 Sterile Processing Insights • Frontline SP staff development promotes confidence, quality, satisfaction • Making the grade: How to assess competency for new and infrequently used endoscopes. Read about this on pages 28-31 • Tough Questions: Are you qualified to process that device? Read about this on page14 and 16 • SPD Renovation: Building in Quality, Safety, Infection Prevention • Controlling the complexities of decontamination and cleaning. • Washer Cycle Optimization: Why, How, and What It Gets You • The FDA Issues Urgent Warning About Karl Storz Endoscopes Reprocessing Methods • Have ‘modular’ instruments lowered surgical infection rates? Read about this topic here. • Ensuring Sufficient Time to Reprocess Instrument Trays • SPD should be a quality hub within healthcare organization • Many SPDs struggling to fill vacant positions Feb. 22, 2022 How to retain top talent to keep quality, safety at forefront. Learn more here. • ST91: Extensive Updates for Endoscope Cleaning, Patient Safety. Read more about it here. • Quick Safety Issue 64: Ensuring critical instruments and devices are appropriate for reuse • Sterile Processing - Annual Risk Assessment What am I assessing? • Pretreating is prerequisite: No more excuses not to clean at point-of-use • Devices & Instruments - Sterile Storage Could be Compromising Patient Care, Safety • Sterile Processing: Personal & Professional • Competition Versus Collaboration: Getting ahead in SPD without Losing Sight of the Ultimate Goal • Brushing Up on Sterile Processing in Dentistry, read more here • How to Conquer Chaos in Sterile Processing: Taking Back Control Starts with You • Traceability: Challenges IPs Face Keeping an Instrument Decontaminated. Read more here • Pre-treatment at point-of-use ‘whodunit’? Follow expert clues to determine whether it’s in OR or SPD • How to Keep Sharps Safety a Cut Above • Sterile Processing Unscripted: Know When to Innovate. Learn more here. • IAHCSMM Hires Federal Lobbyist to Secure Hazard Pay for Sterile Processors, read more here. • HOW TO MASTER THE ART OF RECORDKEEPING, TO MAKE RECORDKEEPING MORE MANAGEABLE. Read more about this topic here. • Sterility, Utility, Facility; Must-haves for storing sterile instruments. Read more here. • Sterile Processing Week Promotion 2021, register for free CEUs and a chance to win 1 of 3 prizes • Making the Most of Our Sterile Processing Minutes, read more here • Focus on the Fundamentals: Endoscope Reprocessing Demands... read more here • Standardized Endoscope Reprocessing Training • Lean and Patient Safety • Processes and performance should drive SPD improvements • Where's the Money in Sterile Processing? • CASSPT volunteers needed for exam committee • Contaminated Screw Caddies: Why We Must Move to Individual Aseptic Packaging of Implantable Medical Devices? • How to Cultivate a Culture of Open Communication in Sterile Processing • Does Reprocessing's Complexity Hinder Disinfection? • Celebrate the Critical Role of the Sterile Processing Profession in Infection Prevention • Education and Competition in Sterile Processing, learn more here. • Virtual Conference: Live and On Demand, register here • Staying Current With AAMI ST79, Auditing Your Processes, Policies, and Daily Operations • Immediate-Use Steam Sterilization Happens in a Flash • How to Document the High-Level Disinfection Patient Connection • Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Are We Approaching a Crossroads or a Precipice? • "Cookies Are For Chumps": Getting Sterile Processing Recognition Right • Olympus Supports New FDA Guidance on Bronchoscope Reprocessing: Learn more about this topic here • Job Postings: Visit the CBSPD website for more information about posting your job or viewing current job postings • Safety Can’t Be Rushed: The task of reprocessing surgical instruments and specialized medical devices have no room for mistakes or shortcuts. • FDA Safety Communication: Flexible bronchoscopes and recommendations for reprocessing • Do You Know Where Your Instruments Are? • FLX: The Flexible Scope Conference, Exploring the intersection of quality, education and equipment • Reevaluating reprocessing workflow: With ORs reopening, SPDs must define their “new normal” • “Hard” vs. “Easy” Scope Repairs: What you need to know • Joint Commission Checklist Proves ‘Instrument-al’ for Sterile Processing Department • Got Mentors? Define Your Mentor Part 2 of 3: We are not limited to the initial way we carried ourselves in our profession. • Managing Endoscopes: How A New Method Is Reducing Endoscope Channel Drying Times Down to Only 10 Minutes • Let Airflow Show Pathogens the Door (or Window or Vent) • OSHA releases new guidance for all industries • 4 Sterile Processing Updates • Monitoring and Releasing of Sterilization Loads • Endoscope Inventors Saw Inspiration in Surprising Source • Managing Surgical Instruments for Top Performance • Management of Sterile Instrumentation in CSSD • How to Improve Reprocessing Ergonomics and Promote Technician Welfare • Use your influence for the good of the industry… read more about it • Key Updates to ‘Guideline on Reprocessing Flexible GI Endoscopes and Accessories’ • FDA warns on sterility issues with medical devices processed at Steril Milano facilities • Not All Contamination is Created Equal • Is It Time to Switch to Single-Use for ERCP? • Continuous Acting Disinfectant Appears to Work Better on Surfaces • Walk a Mile in Their Shoes: A look at roles of the OR • Looking at events in SPD to ensure patient safety • Guidance on Prioritizing Proper Instrument Care • Part II: The Discrepancies in the GUDID Causing Concern Among Clinicians, the Supply Chain & the FDA • SPD Q&A on: Sterile Storage and Instrument Positioning • Key Steps to Achieve Continuous improvement in SPD for the Team • On-site & Off-site Reprocessing Decisions: Punctuated by the Pandemic • The Impact & Reality of the Unique Device Identifier Program on your SPD & Peri-Operative Loop • Meet the Toilet Paper of 2021: Disposable Blue Wrap, the Shortage • Key Factors to Consider with Instrument Set Assembly & Sterilization • Coming together in SPD, working as a unit and ensuring patient safety • How to become a team player with cultural onboarding in SPD • Endo Industry Experts Share Their Thoughts on New Tools & Technology • Does it matter if no one notices a process improvement project? • Steam Sterilizer Maintenance in SPD • The Battle! On-site vs. Off-site Services in SPD. What does the future hold? • The Importance of Competency Assessments in Endoscopy Processing • SPD & COVID-19: What Have We Learned, If Anything? • Back to the Basics: Instrument Cleaning 101 • FDA's Evaluation of Automated Endoscope Reprocessors • Tap into adopting the mental framework to speak up for patient safety! • Reward Yourself! Learn the benefits of continuing education • Healthcare continues to have disruptions with supply shortages • Wrap it up! Pros & Cons of Instrument Packaging • Gloves in Decontam