AAMI Offers Free Benchmarking Demo
The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) is offering a free Benchmarking Demo on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015 at 2 p.m. ET. These days it's incredibly important to understand how your sterile processing department compares to others - is yours where it needs to be? AAMI sterilization experts Donna Swenson and Damien Berg will show participants how this tool works, why they recommend it for your sterile processing department, and answer your questions. Current subscribers are welcome to join us to share comments, ask questions, and check out the new features-including a section on immediate-use steam sterilization.
To register for the Oct 15 webinar, CLICK HERE.
Source: AAMI
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