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The proper cleaning and reprocessing of endoscopes and other semi-critical reusable medical equipment (RME) has taken on added urgency.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), between 5 and 10 percent of all hospital patients become infected with an HAI each year, or a total of about two million patients, and nearly 100,000 of them die as a result of the HAI.

The job of an operating room or perioperative services director is an extremely hectic and busy one.

The AORN Surgical Conference & Expo 2015 which will be held March 7-11 in Denver, Colo is right around the corner.

It’s one of the most dangerous and highest risk activities that occurs in the OR that almost nobody talks about: safe patient handling and mobility, or SPHM.

Perioperative nurses have two main options when it comes to the type of OR environment where they can work.