Webinar Archive

The most common and preventable source of spoilage microorganisms originates from improperly cleaned and sanitized food contact surfaces and equipment. Applying root cause analysis to determine the chronic areas of spoilage contamination, combined with search and destroy principles, work to reduce microbial spoilage contamination on finished product. This webinar will cover important aspects of microbial spoilage control, including identifying spoilage harborage, directed sanitation regimens, and environmental monitoring to combat problematic spoilage contamination issues in food production facilities.

Effectively processing flexible endoscopes between patients is a complex process with many challenges. Multiple patient outbreaks have been tied to improperly processed endoscopes and these devices have been listed in the top 10 patient safety hazards for several years in a row. This one hour webinar presents up-to-date information on the outbreaks and provides actionable steps that healthcare facilities can take to im-prove quality control for flexible endoscope processing.

• Define unintended perioperative hypothermia and identify adverse patient outcomes associated with unintended perioperative hypothermia
• Describe the existing baseline cost of perioperative hypothermia; costs and clinical effectiveness of the implementation of increased utilisation of warming technologies

Enhanced Recovery after Surgery(ERAS) referstopatient-centered, evidence-based, multidisciplinary team developed path ways for a surgical specialty and facility culture to reduce the patient’s surgical stress response, optimize their physiologic function, and facilitate recovery. These care path ways for manin tegrated continuum, as the patient moves from home through the pre-hospital/preadmission, preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases of surgery and homeagain.

• Differentiate infection prevention practices to determine "What is Missing“ causing CLABSIs.
• Evaluate common breaks in aseptic techniques with the published evidence for compliance, causes of intraluminal contamination and impact of absent or ineffective disinfection practices.
• Outline recommendations and levels of evidence for improving infection prevention practices for vascular access devices.

• Understand the requirements for validation and parametric release for steam sterilization processes
• Understand the requirements for the routine monitoring approach for steam sterilization
• Compare and contrast these approaches to steam sterilization quality control