What Does An Instrument Manufacturer Have To Do To Validate Their Cleaning IFUs? (Part I) The FDA mandates that all reusable medical device manufacturers provide instructions for successfully reprocessing their...

New Study Finds Amyloid Protein Transmission Through Contaminated Instruments A new study by the University College London Institute of Neurology finds that Amyloid beta pathology - protein deposits in the...

FDA List of “Greater Risk” Medical Devices and Validated IFUs: Part IV In Part I of this blog (1/26/18) we discussed the fact that the FDA has identified a subset...

FDA List of “Greater Risk” Medical Devices and Validated IFUs: Part III In Part I of this blog (1/26/18) we began an analysis of the FDA’s list of “Greater Risk”...

FDA List of “Greater Risk” Medical Devices and Validated IFUs: Part I The FDA has identified a subset of medical devices that pose a greater likelihood of microbial transmission and...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) & the Challenges of Surgical Instrument Reprocessing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), commonly referred to as the human equivalent of mad cow disease, is caused by rogue, misfolded protein aggregates...

Detecting Bioburden & Biofilm on Surgical Instruments Prior to Sterilization Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that over 30,000 patients die annually from surgical infections. Many...

ECRI Institute’s “Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2017”: Part 2 In Part I of this series (12/22/17) we introduced ECRI Institute’s Health Devices Group “Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for...

ECRI Institute’s “Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2017”: Part 1 ECRI Institute is an independent, nonprofit research organization that researches the best approaches to improving patient care. Since 1971,...

How to Properly Disinfect Reusable Medical Devices: Part IV In Part III of “How to Properly Disinfect Reusable Medical Devices” (Novo blog 12/8/17) we discussed various disinfectants that are commercially...