Decontamination Equipment and Efficacy Testing
A washer can hum through a full cycle, print a tidy record, and unlock its door — and still have cleaned nothing where it mattered, if a spray arm was blocked or a load was packed wrong. That gap between "the cycle finished" and "the cleaning worked" is exactly what efficacy testing exists to catch. […]
Environmental Corrective Actions and Area Cleaning
Careful reprocessing can still fail a patient if the room around it is out of control. A tray that was cleaned, inspected, and wrapped correctly can be compromised by dust from an opened ceiling, a water leak onto a storage shelf, or a mop that traveled from the dirty side to the clean side. Continue […]
