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Hand-Healthy Hand Scrubs - December 2013 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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Outpatient Surgery Magazine Page 6 FEATURES 40 COVER STORY Hand-Healthy Hand Scrubs The quest for products that protect your skin as well as they prevent infection. Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief 46 How Do You Really Feel About Accreditation? Most readers we surveyed tout its benefits, with a few caveats. Daniel Cook | Executive Editor 53 Lessons on Flashing There's a time and a place for rapid-cycle steam sterilization. Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief 58 Preventing Infection After Hernia Surgery Many of today's hernia meshes have a lower risk of adhesion and infection than their heavyweight, unwieldy predecessors. Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief 63 Getting the Point of Sharps Safety 8 questions on the rules that protect your staff. Beverly Kirchner, RN, BSN, CNOR, CASC 70 UV Room Disinfection Robotic cleaners give an extra layer of surface disinfection. Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief 80 Endoscope Reprocessing's Dirty Little Secrets Shortcuts and slip-ups are more common than you might think. Jim Collins, BS, RN, CNOR 88 Have You Automated These 5 Areas Yet? These folks only wish they'd done it sooner. Jim Burger | Associate Editor 92 Single-Incision Success These ideas and innovations are improving the efficiency and safety of the most minimally invasive laparoscopy. David Bernard | Senior Associate Editor 97 10 Labeling and Storage Accidents Waiting to Happen Could any of these be lurking in your facility? Sheldon S. Sones, RPh, FASCP 108 15 Cool, New Products for Anesthesia We walked the aisles with your OR efficiency in mind at this year's American Society of Anesthesiologists' annual meeting. John Dombrowski, MD

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