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News Report Investigates Instrument Reprocessing

Video segment asks, "Are operating rooms using dirty surgical tools?"

Published: February 22, 2012

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Infection Control, News

A report on NBC's Today Show Wednesday morning put sterile processing departments under the microscope, suggesting that surgeons across the country are using instruments contaminated with blood and other debris. Check out the report by Nancy Snyderman, MD, the show's chief medical editor, here.

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