FDA: Use duodenoscopes with disposable parts to prevent infections

Source: Hospital Safety Insider

Disposable designs simplify or eliminate the need for reprocessing, which may reduce between-patient duodenoscope contamination as compared to reusable, or fixed endcap, scopes.

Reusables vs. single-use: The next round in the World Series of Risk Assessments?

Source: Mac's Safety Space 

It seems that we are (yet again) faced with some guidance from the federales that I think will be best served by having a risk assessment in your back pocket.

An El Paso hospital trained for a mass shooting: Then they got the real thing

After a gunman open fired at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on August 5, the emergency department at Del Sol Medical Center—about three miles away—was immediately flooded with patients. The shooting left 22 dead and 26 injured, and was the culmination of two mass shootings in the U.S. in a 24-hour period.

Ensure compliance with EPA rule: Ban all sewering of hazardous waste drugs

Review and update policies on the disposal of pharmaceuticals to prohibit the flushing of any drugs into the sewers. Experts say that may be the best way to ensure compliance with a new EPA regulation banning the sewering of hazardous waste pharmaceuticals that went into effect August 21.

The germs that should scare your clinic staff

New superbugs are emerging that the CDC and other agencies say can’t be stopped. Here’s what you should do to keep them from overtaking your clinic.

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