SteriNET® Connex Remote Monitoring and Factory Support The Consolidated SteriNET Connex remote monitoring system offers a quick and easy solution for diagnosing your sterilizer from an offsite location. With SteriNET Connex, Consolidated engineers can connect to your sterilizer via a standard dedicated phone line. SteriNET Connex is ideal for facilities located in remote areas where service assistance is hours or days away. Features and Benefits Maximizes uptime, reduces unnecessary on-site diagnostic calls, and minimizes on-site service time resulting in lower service costs over the life of the autoclave. Allows for efficient coordination and accurate parts ordering and delivery, for just-in-time service. Includes one year of free software updates. Software upgrades will be installed free of charge (excluding hardware, if required). Allows Consolidated factory engineers to acquire first-hand information from the system to support in-warranty or out-of warranty (billable) service assistance.
7.12.23 Cordyceps Sterilization: How to Kill “The Last of Us” Parasite → In HBO’s recent adaptation of “The Last of Us,” a popular action-adventure video game, life as we know it is upended by a parasitic fungus that transforms its human hosts into zombies. The culprit? Cordyceps, a real-life genus of fungus which is best known for infecting insects (most famously ants) in much the same manner […]
6.30.23 Top 13 Sterile Processing Mistakes in Hospitals → When it comes to ensuring patient safety in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), the Sterile Processing Department (SPD) is among the last lines of defense. It’s this department’s sole responsibility to make sure that reusable instruments and devices are properly decontaminated, sterilized, and ultimately safe to use in future procedures — protecting patients from […]
6.22.23 Sterilization vs. High-Level and Low-Level Disinfection [a 3-Point Comparison] → In a 1939 paper, microbiologist Earle H. Spaulding introduced a system for determining which medical devices and instruments needed disinfection and which ones required sterilization. In it, he proposed that critical instruments would need to be subjected to more stringent disinfection protocols than non-critical patient care items. Today, this framework is fittingly known as Spaulding […]