August 21, 2018
Validate and verify medical devices to ensure safety
Sometimes surgeons ask to have nonmedical devices sterilized, such as spoons, hockey pucks, and fish hooks. Healthcare staff may want to accommodate their requests, but there are times when they cannot do so. A central service (CS) should only sterilize medical devices that have undergone validation testing, which demonstrates that they are safe to undergo sterilization and thus are safe for patient use.
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