Medical devices decontamination, a new perspective For a day in Dublin, almost 300 delegates are going to discuss “Decontamination – It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you …
Second successful Seedrs campaign
CROWDFUNDING & MEDICAL DEVICES Aseptium, to our knowledge, is the first Highland business to have successfully completed a crowdfunding campaign to develop medical devices. Twice. With the first campaign funded …
World Sterilisation Congress Bonn 2017
Christin Denis opened the session about the instrument cleaning saying that cleaning is the most important and the most problematic decontamination process. This year’s World Sterilisation Congress included a lot …
Hard work pays off
After weeks of hard work, the moment has arrived: we have finally revealed the new uSonic washer. Just in time for the 4-day conference with potential distributors from Belgium and …
Internal affairs – cleaning the bloody mess (the one about washer disinfector cycle optimisation)
Everyone talks about optimising washer disinfector cycles and I have presented my holistic approach to the subject before in the Volume 19, No. 2 issue of this journal. Since that …
Prewash, Mainwash and Greenwash – sustainability in decontamination context
This is really a continuation of the line of thinking from one of my first blogs/articles entitled “process versus result”. This time explored through sustainability, a big word that is …
Extrospective approach to decontamination – the need for the external perspective
For some time now I have been thinking about the shape of the decontamination process. Almost everyone is now familiar with the famous multicolour diagram depicting the concept of surgical …
Elusive cost of risk
From some time I have been researching, or shall I rather say trying to research the concept of risk associated with infection transmission through inadequately decontaminated surgical instruments. So far …