The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses’ (AORN’s) Guideline for Design and Maintenance of the Surgical Suite was updated and released in June 2023.
A new standard that establishes the quality of water used to process reusable medical devices heralds “a huge shift for the health care industry,” in the words of Terra Kremer, a microbiological quality expert and co-chair of the AAMI working group that developed the standard.