89 - Looking for Bugs in all the Wrong Places: Hidden Risks of Equipment and Devices

Speaker(s)

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  Ruth Carrico, PhD, DNP, APR, CIC

  University of Louisville
  Louisville, Kentucky

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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  Cori Ofstead, MSPH

  President and CEO
  Ofstead & Associates, Inc.
  St. Paul, Minnesota

  Disclosure: 3M Healthcare : Advisor or Review Panel member (Status: Ongoing), Consultant (Status: Ongoing), Other Financial or Material Support (Status: Ongoing), Research Grant or Support (Status: Ongoing), Study materials (Status: Ongoing); Advanced Sterilization Products : Advisor or Review Panel member (Status: Ongoing), Consultant (Status: Ongoing), Research Grant or Support (Status: Ongoing); Ambu, Inc./Invendo Medical : Consultant (Status: Ongoing), In-kind educational material (Status: Ongoing), Other Financial or Material Support (Status: Ongoing), Research Grant or Support (Status: Ongoing); Auris Health : Consultant (Status: Terminated --- 2019), Research Grant or Support (Status: Terminated --- 2019); Boston Scientific : Consultant (Status: Ongoing), In-kind educational material (Status: Ongoing), Other Financial or Material Support (Status: Ongoing), Research Grant or Support (Status: Ongoing); Cantel/Medivators : Consultant (Status: Ongoing), Research Grant or Support (Status: Ongoing); Convergascent : Advisor or Review Panel member (Status: Ongoing), Consultant (Status: Ongoing); Endoscopy Repair Specialist : In-kind educational material (Status: Ongoing), Other Financial or Material Support (Status: Ongoing); Fortive : Consultant (Status: Terminated --- 2019); Healthmark : Consultant (Status: Ongoing), Other Financial or Material Support (Status: Ongoing), Research Grant or Support (Status: Ongoing), Study materials; in-kind educational materials (Status: Ongoing); Laborie/Cogentix : Advisor or Review Panel member (Status: Terminated --- 2018), Consultant (Status: Terminated --- 2018), Research Grant or Support (Status: Terminated --- 2018); Mobile Instrument Service & Repair : In-kind educational material (Status: Ongoing), Other Financial or Material Support (Status: Ongoing); Ofstead & Associates, Inc. : Employee (Status: Ongoing), Other Financial or Material Support (Status: Ongoing), Ownership interest (Status: Ongoing), Shareholder (Status: Ongoing); Steris : Consultant (Status: Ongoing), Other Financial or Material Support (Status: Ongoing), Research Grant or Support (Status: Ongoing), Study materials (Status: Ongoing)
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  Connie Steed, MSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC

  Director, Infection Prevention
  Prisma Health
  Spartanburg, South Carolina

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Learning Objectives:

• describe infection prevention challenges associated with medical equipment and devices
• discuss strategies for managing infection prevention challenges associated with medical equipment and devices

Presentations:

• 1:15pm – 3:00pm EDT

  What’s Hiding in the Sterile Processing Department: Important Infection Prevention Challenges
  Connie Steed, MSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC – Prisma Health
• 1:15pm – 3:00pm EDT

  What’s Hiding on That Endoscope: Important Infection Prevention Challenges
  Cori L. Ofstead, MSPH – Ofstead & Associates, Inc.
• 1:15pm – 3:00pm EDT

  What’s Hiding on That Portable Medical Equipment: Important Infection Prevention Challenges
  Ruth Carrico, PhD, DNP, APR, CIC – University of Louisville