Tag: CSSD

The ward’s hardest-working room, explained: what a sluice room does, what a sluice unit actually is, and how the equipment fits a dirty-to-clean workflow.

What a pass-through autoclave is, how the double-door interlock keeps clean and sterile zones apart, and what the wall has to carry one.

Pre-vacuum and gravity displacement cycles sterilize different loads. Here is how each autoclave cycle type works, and how to match cycle to load.

Validation proves an autoclave does what it claims, every cycle. What IQ, OQ and PQ mean, what each stage tests, and who performs them.

How a well-run CSSD moves instruments from soiled to sterile: the five zones, the barrier principle, and the equipment behind each step.