Tip of the Week: Keep your dishwasher limited to dishes
Infection Control Weekly Monitor, March 4, 2009
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Occasionally, particularly in a physician’s office, staff members will use a dishwasher to sterilize medical equipment such as vaginal speculums. Some staff members argue that if a dishwasher can clean knives and forks, it can clean other equipment.
Although it might convince some, it doesn’t live up the CDC’s sterilization guidelines as high level disinfection. This week on OSHA Healthcare Advisor, infection control expert Peg Luebbert, MS,MT(ASCP), CIC, CHSP, blogs about best practices in sterilization of medical equipment.
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