Hospital’s sterile processing departments play an under-the-radar yet critically important role in patient care. While their function may not be prominently known to patients, they are responsible for ...

At one time it might have been surprising to find out that an Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) functioned without an in-house Sterile Processing Department (SPD). Today, it’s common to see centers ...

Most hospitals in recent years have focused needed attention on preventing surgical site infections. Properly timed antibiotics, skin antisepsis, appropriate hair removal, hand hygiene and other ...

The global Sterilization Services Market, valued at US$3.52 billion in 2024, stood at US$3.75 billion in 2025 and is ...

The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. DMC Children's Hospital separating sterile processing ...

They are CRDAMC's invisible gladiators of patient safety, tasked with a nasty mission: infection prevention. Whether dressed head to toe in personal protective gear or huddled over desks peering ...

Sterile processing technicians are being celebrated for their important role and commitment to patient safety during the annual National Healthcare Central Service/Sterile Processing Week, Oct. 9-15.

A woman who used to work in the sterile processing department at UAB took to TikTok last week to air concerns about safety at the hospital in a video that garnered hundreds of thousands of views.

University Hospital South, the former C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, will become the new home to Michigan Medicine's Central Sterile Processing Department. (Ann Arbor News file photo) ANN ARBOR, MI - ...