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Not the Retiring Type - January 2015 - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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D oes your central sterile team follow recommended practices and evidence-based guidelines when it comes to decontaminating surgical instruments? If the results of a recent survey of 105 Outpatient Surgery readers are any indication, it wouldn't hurt your team to brush up on these basics. Cleaning and rinsing instruments does notremove all visible and non- visible debris. One-third of our survey respondents didn't know this, pointing to an overall lack of knowledge about the importance of each step in the 1 1 1 0 O U T PAT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | January 2015 8 Common Misconceptions About Instrument Decontamination Mary a. Hillanbrand, DnP, rn, CnOr, CCnS, CnS-CP | Bethesda, Md. The right way to get items ready for sterilization.

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