Decontamination methods and selection.(SELF-STUDY SERIES)

Healthcare Purchasing News | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

What is "decontamination?"

Is it bed pans being processed through a washer? A colonoscope being soaked in glutaraldehyde? Perhaps it's a container of instruments being processed in a sterilizer. Actually, all of these activities are examples of decontamination. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) describes decontamination as "the use of physical or chemical means to remove, inactivate, or destroy blood-borne pathogens on a surface or item to the point where they are no longer capable of transmitting infectious particles and the surface or item is rendered ...

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