The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation has released five laminated posters with helpful tips for sterile processing departments.
The posters' topics include:
1. When not to perform immediate-use steam sterilization
2. Steps to follow with sterilization process failures
3. How to load a sterilizer
4. Minimum times for gravity-displacement steam sterilization cycles
5. Items to check in identifying reasons for process failures
Each poster features tips to address the specific subject. For example, the checklist poster reminds personnel to check the cycle temperature when trying to determine why a cycle failure occurred.
The posters are available for purchase as a set of five. The list price is $89 and the AAMI member price is $59. For more information, click here.
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The posters' topics include:
1. When not to perform immediate-use steam sterilization
2. Steps to follow with sterilization process failures
3. How to load a sterilizer
4. Minimum times for gravity-displacement steam sterilization cycles
5. Items to check in identifying reasons for process failures
Each poster features tips to address the specific subject. For example, the checklist poster reminds personnel to check the cycle temperature when trying to determine why a cycle failure occurred.
The posters are available for purchase as a set of five. The list price is $89 and the AAMI member price is $59. For more information, click here.
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