Manual Cleaning: Disassembly, Sinks, and Aerosol Control
Manual cleaning is where a contaminated instrument gets its first real chance to become safe. It is slow, hands-on work at the decontamination sink that decides whether every later step has a clean surface to act on. Hidden soil in a joint or lumen can block disinfection or sterilization and reach the next patient. Continue […]
Maintenance, Alarms, Feed Lines, Drains, and Outlets
Most cleaning failures do not announce themselves with sparks. They show up quietly — a spray arm with clogged jets, a drain backing up under a load, an air gap in a feed line — and then repeat across every cycle until someone notices. A small mechanical fault can become a cleaning failure multiplied by […]
