How does the lack of scrubbing and friction during transport and holding impact our choice of pretreatment and cleaning chemicals?
Disinfectants and Barriers
COVID-19 has made dentists question if their disinfecting procedures are enough to keep staff and patients safe. Should you use more disinfectant? Is a barrier doing enough to protect clients? Won’t disinfecting more cause damage to your equipment?
Prevent Biofilm with QEZ Bedside kits
Every endoscopy team must figure out the protocols and supplies to prevent dried soils inside and outside of endoscopes. Delays and dried soils may lead to biofilm.
COVID-19 and ProSpray™ Disinfectants
An update from Certol International based on recent information from the CDC.
Point of Use Instrument Care
By Peggy Spitzer
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Why are surveyors focusing on point of use instrument care? Transport of Instruments may take one to two hours from end of procedure to start of soak time in Central Processing.
Why Use Enzymatic Detergent
Why use enzymatic detergents? Detergents work by reducing surface tension, allowing water and friction to remove soils. The key word here is FRICTION. Friction is YOUR effort with brushes and cloths to help detergent remove soil. Friction requires direct access to the surface area including channels, serrations and box locks. When enzymes are added to…
THE STICK STOPS HERE – The risks of two handed recapping
Ouch! A bad habit is “sticking” around. Two handed recapping is the use of one hand to hold the dental syringe while using your other hand to put the cap back on the needle. Used, contaminated needles are the easiest way to transmit HIV or Hepatitis B. Getting stuck with a dirty needle is both scary…
Fight Dirty, With Fresh – Certol® International Releases QEZ™ Bedside Kits
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 14th, 2019 Commerce City, April 14, 2019 – Certol® International, LLC announced that after 2 years of development and testing, it will launch QEZ™ Bedside Kits for the immediate precleaning of endoscopes at the Society of Gastroenterology Nurses Association 46th Annual Course in Portland, Oregon. The concept for QEZ™ Bedside Kits…
Certol Donates to Kansas Mission of Mercy, Pittsburg State University 2019
Each year, Certol donates products from our infection prevention line to Kansas Mission of Mercy (KMOM), a free dental clinic held by the Kansas Dental Charitable Foundation (KDCF). In 2019, we are donating twelve cases of ProSpray™ wipes Soft Packs, ten boxes of ProTray™ Disposable Instrument Trays, ten boxes of ProBarrier™ disposa chain™, and two…