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What's an example of something that usually goes unnoticed when done well but very noticeable when done poorly or not done at all? (self.ask)

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

autoclaving, i remember i was watching someon yt how they worked in a hospital and they had to destroy surgical instruments of PRION- disease patients, rather than cleaning it

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. I've run into that a single time in the ~decade I've been a surgical tech. Yeah once an instrument is used on a CJD patient, it becomes trash.

In the case I was in, we knew it was coming ahead of time, so we coordinated with SPD to basically peel pack every instrument of every set that would normally be used in that case. So, instead of one sterile toolbox full of instruments, we had like 200 individual peel packs. Also a lot of single use disposables. We opened the bare minimum to get started, and waited on everything else until the surgeon specifically asked for it. All of the garbage from that case - instruments, drapes, peel packs, even the sharps iirc - was isolated and sent for some heightened tier of destruction compared to normal medical trash.

That was a weird day.