Since human-generated contamination plays a large role in critical environments, special care must be taken to provide appropriate garments to minimize the human impact on the cleanroom.
Construction subcontractors’ lack of awareness of their surroundings is perhaps one of the most frustrating issues, from a contamination control point of view, faced by health-care facility managers.
Patient mortality could be reduced by 17 percent and reliability of care could improve by nearly 13 percent if the not-for-profit hospitals participating in a nationwide collaborative attained the project’s quality goals, according to a recently released analysis.
In findings recently published on the New England Journal of Medicine web site, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the cause of serious adverse reactions reported in late 2007 were due to heparin contaminated with oversulfated chondroitin sulfate (OSCS).
Medical device manufacturers can benefit from innovative surface analysis techniques to help them identify and quantify contaminants on devices, but only if they are willing and able to share information about what the device is made of, where it’s been, and what might be causing the contamination.
