Dear All Respected Professionals, This post is specially related to Surgeons. What should be the mininum stanard of infection control and sterilization of surgical and diagnostic equipments? Forget about CDC recommendations, do doctors in India (Kindly consider it as general, not all) follow even the most basic steps required for sterilization and disinfection. Not only small hospitals and clinics, even big corporate hospitals have a very lousy system of monitoring and maintenance.
Its up to the OT assistants and nurses to ensure that the sterilization is carried out or not. Most doctors blindly believe them and start carrying out surgical procedures. OT assistants are mostly ill trained and if trained, then also they are unware of latest guidelines of full proof methods of disinfection and sterilization (D & S). Cidex is considered as Universal remedy for (D & S), without knowing its…
