Process This Episode 40: Leak Testing Tips and Trials
In Episode 40, featured guest Seth Hendee shares his insights on leak testing by breaking down the processes, both manual and mechanical, as well as wet versus dry. Host Jon …
Process This Episode 37: The Challenges of Loaned Instrumentation
In Episode 37, our featured guest, Tami Heacock, covers the challenges of education and communication in the coordination and reprocessing of loaned instruments. Tami explains the loaned instrument processes, timing, …
Process This Episode 34: The Q&As of QMS
In episode 34, featured guest Damien Berg has all the answers regarding quality management systems (QMS) and their valuable place in the Sterile Processing (SP) environment. Berg provides an overview …
Process This Episode 31: Validation and Verification
In episode 31, our featured guest, Alpa Patel, BS, RM discusses the months-long processes of validation and verification on a variety of equipment – as well as the types of …
Process This Episode 29: 2020, A Year in Review, Part 1
Episode 29 finds our host Jon Wood taking a look back at 2020: the highs and the lows, challenges and change in our podcasts, and our lives. He provides quick …
Process This Episode 28: Shifting the Decontamination Stigma
In episode 28, we explore the challenges and common negative perception of the Sterile Processing decontamination area. Our featured guest, Megan Pietura, explains how teamwork, interdepartmental partnerships and peer-to-peer recognition …
Process This Episode 27: Power of Proactive and Comprehensive Instrument Maintenance Programs
Episode 27 explores the benefits of comprehensive preventative maintenance and routine care programs for instrument sets. Our guests Kevin McLaughlin and Randy Stanton from Northfield Medical discuss why it’s essential to adopt a proactive rather than …
Process This Episode 25: Chemical Disinfection Challenges and Choices, Part 1
This special edition podcast not only has us celebrating Sterile Processing (SP) Week, but also the one-year anniversary of our Process This podcast series. Guest speaker Peggy Spitzer joins us from Certol …
Process This Episode 24: The ins and outs of IFU
In this episode of Process This we are joined by Lisa McKown (formerly Wakeman), research and development manager for Beyond Clean, to discuss medical device instructions for use (IFU) and …