By Nancy Chobin, RN, AAS, ASCP, CSPM, CFER Personal dress code and hygiene play an important role in infection prevention of staff and patients. Sometimes, we do not always take the time to ensure compliance, which is unacceptable. To understand this better, let’s look at the recommendations and their importance. Personal Hygiene Good personal hygiene involves keeping all parts of ...

Hydrogen peroxide process enables safe mask reuse April 21, 2020: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted Sterilucent, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN), an Emergency Use Authorization to allow the emergency use of the SterilucentTM HC 80TT Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide Sterilizer for decontaminating single-use compatible N95 and N95-equivalent respirators. Test results have demonstrated that filtering facepiece respirators may be reprocessed for use during the COVID-19 pandemic in the ...