CNN is reporting today that hospital officials from Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. are notifying 18 neurosurgery patients that they might have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). To read the CNN report, 

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 sterile processing page provides an inside look into the sterile processing (or central supply) department in the hospital where surgical instruments are cleaned, sterilized, and reprocessed in order to disinfect, remove bioburden, and prep for upcoming procedures. Sterile processing applies to not only the knives, scalpels, scissors, forceps, and clamps used in surgery, but also instruments such as endoscopes and duodenoscopes. 

 reports on the latest technology but also on the means to disinfect that technology. Also, the trend toward making more disposable surgical equipment. What does that mean for the sterile processing team?

		CNN is reporting today that hospital officials from Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. are notifying 18 neurosurgery patients that they might have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

Surgery Patients May Have Been Exposed to CJD at N.C. Hospital