Paris / Geneva / Totowa / Champlain / Washington / DC / London / Edinburgh / /
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vCJD / Brown SA. / Whittaker AG / Dickinson AG / Steris / Sattar SA / B. Braun Melsungen / DuPont / Humana Press / /
Continent
Europe / /
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Switzerland / Netherlands / France / Japan / Canada / Portugal / United Kingdom / Scotland / Saudi Arabia / Italy / United States / Spain / Ireland / /
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USD / / /
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Product Issues / FDA Phase / Product Recall / /
Facility
University of Edinburgh / University of North Carolina Health Care / University of North Carolina School / Chapel Hill / /
IndustryTerm
prion-contaminated medical devices / magnetic resonance imaging / surgical steel surfaces / chemical sterilants / patient-care equipment / histopathologic processing / stainless steel wires / prion reprocessing protocols / food utensils / conventional chemical / level disinfection protocols / hypochlorite solutions / semicritical devices / surgical devices / chemical sterilization / Clean devices / chemicals / stainless steel surface / sharp devices / conventional protocols / chemical concentration / prolonged transportation / semicritical medical devices / blood products / low-temperature technologies / sterilization processing / surgical stainless steel wires / prion-contaminated heat-sensitive medical devices / vaporized chemicals / chemical compounds / surgical stainless steel / healthcare personnel / healthcare / detergent treatment protocol / radio-frequency gas-plasma treatment / Tag equipment / healthcare facilities / hydrogen peroxide gas plasma sterilization / gas plasma / healthcare workers / healthcare-associated transmission / noncritical equipment / stainless steel / surgical equipment / physical and chemical means / surgical steel / low-temperature sterilization technologies / antimicrobial products / chemical / personal protective equipment / steel-surface-bound prions / chemical disinfection methods / contaminated medical devices / manufacturing surfaces / hydrogen peroxide gas plasma / surgical-steel monofilaments / stainless steel penicylinders / /
World Health Organization / Occupational Safety and Health Administration / Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America / University of Edinburgh / Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation / Department of Health / National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit / Food and Drug Administration / Association for Professionals / University of North Carolina Health Care / Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee / University of North Carolina School of Medicine / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / Division of Infectious Diseases / APIC Guidelines Committee / Environmental Protection Agency / /
Person
Ann Neurol / David J. Weber / Van de Wiel / Arch Virol / A. Rutala / William A. Rutala / / /
Position
gravity displacement sterilizer / prevacuum sterilizer / sterilizer / operating room charge nurse / operating surgeon / surgeon / Walker JT / Walker / Johnson RT / Gibbs CJ Jr / healthcare worker / risk manager / and the infection preventionist / /
Product
NX / acetic acid / glycine / such instruments / X3 / animal tissues / MPH / medical instruments / grafts / medical devices / patient-care equipment / tissues / medical devices.17 / 29 / 30 / 37 / 40 / 60 / 64 / 80 Prions / electroencephalography electrodes / environmental surfaces This section / instruments / PhD / wires / items / wastes / devices / instruments tact nonintact skin / medical equipment / heat-sensitive medical devices / Medical Instruments William A. Rutala / surfaces / devices.29 / 32 / 33 / 36 These technologies / /
infection control and hospital epidemiology february 2010, vol. 31, no. 2 shea guideline