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|Articles|December 28, 2022

Top 10 Most Popular Infection Control Today Articles of 2022: 4, 3, 2

This last week of 2022, Infection Control Today® reviews the most popular articles. Here are the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd most popular.

Infection Control Today® (ICT®) strives all year to give you the best, most helpful information to do your job. Starting with the tenth most popular article, we will countdown the Top 10 most popular articles ICT® posted in 2022.

Here we continue our countdown with the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd most popular articles ICT® posted in 2022.

4th Most Popular: Contamination of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Transducers Alarms Key Clinician

Using ultrasound transducers is often necessary in the emergency department, but too often the proper procedures to protect against health care-associated infections are not followed, and clinicians are worried.

3rd Most Popular: Candida auris Rapidly Recontaminates Surfaces Around Patients’ Beds Despite Cleaning and Disinfection

Candida auris environmental contamination is unlikely to be adequately controlled because re-contamination occurs within hours after disinfection.

2nd Most Popular: The FDA Issues Urgent Warning About Karl Storz Endoscopes Reprocessing Methods

The letter comes after a year of reprocessing validation testing and a voluntary medical device recall.

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