Bioburden, Holes, and Hair, Oh My!

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What are the common orthopedic instrumentation sterility issues that arise in the surgical context? How do these issues impact the safety of?patient care and our frontline clinicians? During our collaborative Sterile Processing, Infection Prevention, and Operating Room conference last year entitled Mission: Control - Standing Up to Superbugs & SSIs, we invited Dr. Adam Rosen (Author of The Knee Book - A Guide to the Aging Knee / Total Knee Surgeon at Scripps Clinic Medical Group / and Podcast host of Total Knee Tips & Pearls) to provide a presentation on the topic of bioburden in the surgical setting. His content took us deep into the infection risks associated with orthopedic?instrumentation, directly from an orthopedic?surgeon's perspective, with the important implications that flow out from & to the Sterile Processing, Infection Prevention, and OR team members.

While bioburden is a common topic discussed within our Sterile Processing circles, engaging with our surgeon partners in the OR in an educational (and lower stress) collaboration where we can be honest with the challenges and open about the solutions is what this particular session sought to achieve. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

(Dr. Rosen is a Total Joint Surgeon specializing in Total Knee Replacement and Total Knee Revision. He is a public speaker who educates patients about conservative care (weight loss, exercise and strengthening), non-surgical care (medications and injections), and surgical care (total knee replacement). He also leads a mini think tank for ways to improve health care in the US, utilize web based patient care and develop wearable medical technologies. In his free time he enjoys fly fishing, enjoying the outdoors, and exploring the Pacific Northwest in what little free time he has.)

Additional Resources & Important Links:

• ???Listen to our 1 CE?podcast episode with Dr. Wava Truscott entitled?Lint: Patient Enemy Number One
• ????Watch Bill Schmelzer discuss his head-on collision with Septic Bacteremia/MRSA in 2016, and the ongoing physical, emotional and financial implications of this experience that continues years after the initial crisis:?MRSA: A Personal Case Study
• ????Watch Joseph Stoffel's presentation from our Against Biofilm conference, entitled Lifestyles of the Microscopic and Opportunistic--Biofilms, Microbes’ Preferred Way of Living
• ???Learn about the new Sterile Processing Microcredential?that will take you deeper into the intersection of infection prevention, cross-contamination, and reprocessing excellence.
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Keep fighting dirty!

-Hank Balch

Founder & President, Beyond Clean