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Washer-Decontaminator-An Evaluation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Sue Crow*
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Control, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveporl, Louisiana
*
Nurse Epidemiologist, LSU Medical Center, PO Box 33932. Shreveporl, LA 71130

Extract

Personnel concerned with instrument processing have searched for decades for the ultimate machine to effectively decontaminate dirty instruments, a machine that could take heavily soiled instruments— even instruments with dried debris—and turn them out spotlessly clean. The machines previously available simply do not tit this bill.

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1989

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