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Blood Exposures Among Healthcare Workers

The Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare (AOHP) is requesting information from occupational health professionals nationwide ...read more

Resources for Patient Safety

Every healthcare organization need supplies and tools to achieve high quality care, but patient safety resources can be a difficult goal to plan into ...read more

Clostridium difficile Infections

Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) caused almost half a million infections among patients in the United States in a single year, according to a ...read more

Preoperative CHG Bathing

This report addresses patient skin cleansing with chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) as an effective intervention in the arsenal against surgical site ...read more

Digital Summit: Healthcare Textiles

This digital summit will address proper healthcare textiles management from an infection prevention point of view, illustrate protocols for safe ...read more

Latest Headlines

Veridien Establishes Its First National Hospital Group Purchasing Agreement with MedAssets, Inc.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Veridien Corporation announces that it has entered into a three-year group purchasing contract with MedAssets for its patented Viraguard infection control products. MedAssets is a supply chain solutions company that improves it member's cash flow. ...More
June 20, 2006 Posted in News
MedMined Launches Innovative Antimicrobial Management Service to Help Hospitals Improve Antimicrobial Use and Reduce Expenses

MedMined Inc., a medical information technology company, has launched a new service that is designed to help hospitals improve patient outcomes and reduce costs associated with inpatient antimicrobial use. The Antimicrobial Management Service (AMS) debuted at the ...More
June 20, 2006 Posted in News
3M Applauds IHI 100,000 Lives Campaign for Heightening National Awareness of Hospital Infections and Saving Lives

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Joining the groundswell of support for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) 100,000 Lives Campaign, 3M applauds this milestone "best practices" initiative to prevent thousands of avoidable deaths from infection. "The IHI 100,000 Lives Campaign ...More
June 20, 2006 Posted in News
New Study Indicates Needlestick Injuries Continue to Cause Significant Concern for Healthcare Workers; Current Safety Syringe Designs Leave Room for Improvement

ATLANTA -- Inviro Medical announces the findings of the 2006 Study of Needlestick Injuries and Safety Devices, an independent nationwide study of directors of infection control (DICs) and nurses. The findings reveal needlestick injuries (NSIs) affect the vast majority of ...More
June 20, 2006 Posted in News
Ecolab Buys UK Contamination Control Products Company

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Ecolab Inc. announced today that it has purchased Shield Medicare Ltd., a leading European developer, manufacturer and marketer of contamination control products used in pharmaceutical, medical device and hospital clean rooms. It has sales of ...More
June 20, 2006 Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene
TVI Corporation Receives Order from the State of Florida

GLENN DALE, Md. -- TVI Corporation, a global supplier of rapidly deployable first receiver and first responder systems for homeland security, hospitals, the military, police and fire departments, and public health agencies, today announced that it has received an order ...More
June 20, 2006 Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
Research Reports Clearant Process Sterilization Reduces Infectious Risks in Soft Tissue Allografts

LOS ANGELES -- Clearant, Inc. announces that positive results from a study examining the safety and biomechanical integrity of tissue sterilized with the Clearant Process were published recently in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research (Vol. 24, No. 5). The study concluded ...More
June 19, 2006 Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
LaserGrade Wins Contract with Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution, Inc.

LaserGrade announces that it has signed a new contract with the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution, Inc. (CBSPD) to administer its five levels of professional certification examinations. LaserGrade will convert CBSPD’s paper and pencil examinations ...More
June 19, 2006 Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
H5N1 Vaccine Could be Basis for Life-Saving Stockpile

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s ResearchHospital have announced that a vaccine they developed a few years ago against one antigenic variant of the avian influenza virus H5N1 may protect humans against future variants of the virus. Vaccines based on this model might ...More
June 19, 2006 Posted in News
Trends in Outsourcing CS/SP

Question: What trends do you see in offsite sterilization providers? Are most SP/CS departments tending to focus on in-house sterilization, or is there an interest in outsourcing as a cost saving or capacity enhancement measure? -- RB, Florida The trend is slow. The ...More
June 16, 2006 Posted in Articles, Disinfection & Sterilization