Hospital Sterile Supplies

Rethinking Sterile: The Hospital Microbiome

Fears over phosphorus supplies

" By 2030 demand for food will increase by 30 per cent and for water by 30 per cent, " said Guthrie. The report says that many countries were now using water unsustainably, by turning to desalination, which demands large amounts of energy, and by drawing on 'fossil' groundwater laid down millions of years ago. Libya, Algeria, and Saudi Arabia are taking vast quantities of fossil water from deep...

[Level of attention of the classified supplies as Z in the hospital universitário from USP].

The lack of the consumption materials in hospital units is a faced difficulty for health professionals. Some tools of the supplies' management are being incorporated with the purpose to minimize these lacks, between them the XYZ materials classification which is based on the operational importance of supplies. It allows fixing levels of attendance (LA) and levels' lacks (LL) to different suppli...

Sterile & Non Sterile Manufacturing Operation Manuals

Persistence of Legionella in hospital water supplies and nosocomial Legionnaires' disease.

The molecular epidemiology of clinical and environmental Legionella species isolates was studied in seven hospitals from 1989 to 2006. The number of environmental pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns ranged from one to nine according to the hospital. Genomic PFGE pattern persistence was observed in 71% of the hospitals, even after 17 years in some hospitals, and the relationship bet...