Shelving Options Standard Two stationary shelves placed at the bottom and midpoint of the sterilizer. The shelves can be removed for cleaning by lifting the shelves up and out of the sterilizer. Option 1: Upgrade to a slide-out middle shelf to aid in loading of the sterilizer. The shelf slides halfway out and is secure to load fully. The bottom shelf remains stationary. Option 2: Upgrade to three shelves equally spaced in the sterilizer. The top and middle shelves are slide-out shelves to aid in loading the sterilizer. The shelves slide halfway out and are secure to load fully. The bottom shelf remains stationary. Additional shelving options are available to customize your sterilizer. Contact your sales representative for more information →
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 […]