While ethylene oxide helps ensure vital medical equipment like catheters and surgical ... toxic ethylene oxide emissions from commercial sterilization facilities," said Patrice Simms, an ...

Cleaning and sterilization are used for washing and sterilizing critical items such as urinary and cardiac catheters, surgical instruments, and implants, semi-critical items such as endoscopes ...

“A technology that frees us from the problem of contact time would be radically helpful for the repeated use of essential medical equipment,” says Okazaki. Faster sterilization would also ...

The medical facility, responsible for the care of U.S. presidents and wounded troops, may struggle for months to return to ...

An automatic tightness check at the beginning of each sterilization cycle prevents the instrument from starting if the system is not tight – avoiding incomplete sterilization and subsequent ...

On January 14, 2025, the Biden administration’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posted a last-minute “interim” decision in the ...

Yukon Medical Association president, Dr. Derek Bryant, says Yukon physicians were notified of the issue on Friday in a statement from the Yukon Hospital Corporation. "There was an equipment ...

The global mobile sterile units market is poised for significant growth, projected to expand at a CAGR of 5.7% and reach a ...

This decision is part of the Ministry's ongoing monitoring and inspection efforts, carried out by the Health Facilities Department at the Ministry.