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Archive > July, 2008 Vol. IX, No. 7

What's Wrong With Flashing Cataract Instruments?

AORN denounces routine flashing, steams eye surgery community.

Nathan Hall, Associate Editor

Exactly what is the standard of care for the sterilization of cataract instruments, and what should it be? Those questions have some surgical facility managers steamed and ophthalmic associations scrambling as they try to navigate new AORN guidelines that proscribe routine flashing and Joint Commission surveys that reportedly ding facilities that violate the rules.

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