Beyond Clean Podcast

On this week's edition of the Beyond Clean Expert Series On-The-Go, tune in for the conversation entitled, "Why So Dry?". To hear more from this expert, follow us on Facebook and Linkedin, or subscribe to the Beyond Clean mailing list by visiting: https://educate.beyondclean.net/cleanfreaks or text BEYONDCLEAN to 22828 Do you know a #SterileProcessing expert who you'd love to hear from on our seri...

In this CE-approved release of Articles On-The-Go, Hank Balch reviews the common excuses SPD gets from vendors and what should be done about it -- "Our roles as medical device reprocessors is to uphold standards and best practices to ensure adequate time is available and compliant processes are followed as it relates to vendor instrumentation. The fact that Dr. Johnson forgot to tell you about a c...

Of all of the songs on your Decontam playlist, "As Cold as Ice" isn't likely to be one of them. Under layers of gowns, masks, face shields and other PPE, the temperature in your decontamination areas can skyrocket, presenting a real risk to engagement and even employee safety.     Season 20 of the Beyond Clean Podcast is all about personal protective equipment (PPE) and in this debut episode we di...

On this week's edition of the Beyond Clean Expert Series On-The-Go, tune in for the conversation entitled, "Scope Storage Standards". To hear more from this expert, follow us on Facebook and Linkedin, or subscribe to the Beyond Clean mailing list by visiting: https://educate.beyondclean.net/cleanfreaks or text BEYONDCLEAN to 22828 Do you know a #SterileProcessing expert who you'd love to hear from...

In this CE-approved release of Articles On-The-Go, Hank Balch reviews the three angles of looking at a problem -- "The best way to describe the Triangle of Truth is that it acts as a filter to enable anyone from frontline technicians to department leaders and administrators to quickly pinpoint root causes for certain issues in sterile processing." To read this article, take the CE quiz & download...

On this week's edition of the Beyond Clean Expert Series On-The-Go, tune in for the conversation entitled, "Why are the Reps in the Room". To hear more from this expert, follow us on Facebook and Linkedin, or subscribe to the Beyond Clean mailing list by visiting: https://educate.beyondclean.net/cleanfreaks or text BEYONDCLEAN to 22828 Do you know a #SterileProcessing expert who you'd love to hear...

In this CE approved release of Articles On-The-Go, Hank Balch reviews the seven key steps to making changes in Sterile Processing departments stick -- "We see something is not working and then we tell the people around us that we need to do it differently. This process is repeated again and again until we are surrounded by a fog of ambiguous changes that aren't written down anywhere, haven't been...

On this week's edition of the Beyond Clean Expert Series On-The-Go, tune in for the conversation entitled, "Can We Handle the Truth?". To hear more from this expert, follow us on Facebook and Linkedin, or subscribe to the Beyond Clean mailing list by visiting: https://educate.beyondclean.net/cleanfreaks or text BEYONDCLEAN to 22828 Do you know a #SterileProcessing expert who you'd love to hear fro...

Water is easy to take for granted in Sterile Processing, but the reality is that our water can have dramatic impacts on our department's ability to safely & compliantly care for our surgical patients. How do you know where to start to take your facility's water quality seriously? On this episode of the Beyond Clean Vendor Spotlight™ series, we sit down with Nikhil Sheth, Marketing Manager at Nalco...

On this week's edition of the Beyond Clean Expert Series On-The-Go, tune in for the conversation entitled, "Routine Monitoring: What Should I Know - Part 2". To hear more from this expert, follow us on Facebook and Linkedin, or subscribe to the Beyond Clean mailing list by visiting: https://educate.beyondclean.net/cleanfreaks or text BEYONDCLEAN to 22828 Do you know a #SterileProcessing expert who...

On this Special Release Beyond Clean Vendor Spotlight™ we captured exclusive audio from an in-person conversation which happened during the filming of Episode 3 of the Beyond the Tour mini-series, featuring Aesculap's national repair facility team in St. Louis, Missouri. We had just finished touring their cutting-edge repair lab, riding along in one of their repair vehicles, and interviewing many...

In this CE-approved release of Articles-On-The-Go, Hank Balch relates how documented competencies for Sterile Processing Technicians is a matter of life and death -- "Facilities and leaders who are willing to short-circuit employee competency checks are showing that they actually do not  believe the work being done in the SPD is all that complex or even important. Actions speak louder than words,...

On this week's edition of the Beyond Clean Expert Series On-The-Go, tune in for the conversation entitled, "Surgical Pack Storage". To hear more from this expert, follow us on Facebook and Linkedin, or subscribe to the Beyond Clean mailing list by visiting: https://educate.beyondclean.net/cleanfreaks or text BEYONDCLEAN to 22828 Do you know a #SterileProcessing expert who you'd love to hear from o...

In this release of Articles On-The-Go, Hank Balch invites us to pause and consider the impact of technology on the value of Sterile Processing Technicians: "Department leaders cannot afford to simply open the floodgates of technology into their departments without judicious consideration of the men and women behind the machines. We owe it to our people to tap the technological brakes every now and...

On this week's edition of the Beyond Clean Expert Series On-The-Go, tune in for the conversation entitled, "Why Vendor Scheduling is a Challenge". To hear more from this expert, follow us on Facebook and Linkedin, or subscribe to the Beyond Clean mailing list by visiting: https://educate.beyondclean.net/cleanfreaks or text BEYONDCLEAN to 22828 Do you know a #SterileProcessing expert who you'd love...

In this CE-approved release of Articles On-The-Go, Hank Balch examines the menagerie of items being sterilized in surgical instrument trays and the reasons they should be left out. "Because they have no validation and no IFUs, they have no place in our sterilizers or on our sterile storage shelves, and definitely no place touching our patients." Tune in to hear what surprising items show up on the...

Nearly all of us will come in contact with some type of Ophthalmic surgical instruments at some point in our careers. But a few of us may end up on the patient side of those instruments as well. On our final episode of Season 19, "The Surgeons We Serve," Lindsay Brown joins us as a cohost for a special interview as we speak with Jill  Melicher , MD, Ophthalmic Plastic, Orbit and Reconstructive Sur...

On this week's edition of the Beyond Clean Expert Series On-The-Go, tune in for the conversation entitled, "The SPD Detective: Finding Clues in Chemical Labels - Part III". To hear more from this expert, follow us on Facebook and Linkedin, or subscribe to the Beyond Clean mailing list by visiting: https://educate.beyondclean.net/cleanfreaks or text BEYONDCLEAN to 22828 Do you know a #SterileProces...

In this CE-approved release of Articles On-The-Go, Hank Balch examines the often overlooked and undocumented occurrence of used sharps being sent to SPD--"If a hospital would document a near miss or injury to a doctor due to a disposable sharp that was not properly disposed of, the same should be true for a decontaminator... All members of the perioperative continuum of care, regardless of their t...

"The residents are coming! The residents are coming!"  How does your Sterile Processing team feel when you hear those words? Are you prepared? Are your instruments?  On this Season 19 episode of "The Surgeons We Serve," a season focused on spotlighting the intersection of surgeons & surgical instruments, we are joined by Allison M. Hunter, MD, Orthopaedic Hand, Elbow & Upper Extremity Surgeon at B...

On this week's edition of the Beyond Clean Expert Series On-The-Go, tune in for the conversation entitled, "The SPD Detective: Finding Clues in Chemical Labels - Part II". To hear more from this expert, follow us on Facebook and Linkedin, or subscribe to the Beyond Clean mailing list by visiting: https://educate.beyondclean.net/cleanfreaks or text BEYONDCLEAN to 22828 Do you know a #SterileProcess...

What do you get when you mix an unrelenting passion for  processing  with a commitment to hear from & deliver upon the needs of Sterile  Processing  customers on the frontlines? You get the team at  Pure   Processing , founded in 2010 and based in Carol Stream Illinois, who work tirelessly to develop and manufacture ergonomic solutions for easy, fast, safe and effective medical device pre-cleaning...

In this CE-approved release of Articles-On-The-Go, Hank Balch examines how better practices and safety can be achieved by a simple case cart lock--" The broad implications of an unassuming disposable case cart lock can have a dramatic impact on any number of sterile processing teams around the country. Locks can streamline your case picking and missing list identification. They can promote account...

What's at the center of all the washing, assembling, and sterilizing in an SPD that keeps patients safe and surgeries moving forward? People. Skilled technicians who manage to get the job done regardless of the stressors, work environment, or available tools. As an industry, how to we recognize these sterilizing superheroes and help get them the tools and support they need? Dr. Peter Nichol, Pedia...

When our industry talks about "instrument quality," what do we really mean? What does that quality standard actually give us? And where does it actually begin? Joining us for this Beyond Clean Vendor Spotlight™ is Alex Ebner, CEO of  Wiggins Medical  to speak with us about the origin of surgical instrument quality that reaches back to what some describe as the epicenter of instrument manufacturing...