High on the agenda at the Central Sterilising Club’s Annual Scientific Meeting was the theme of “risk and revolution”. How should we review current approaches, drive innovation, and ensure patient safety? What questions should we ask, when implementing ‘a revolution’, and what are the challenges that we need to overcome? Louise Frampton reports.
Experts from a broad spectrum of disciplines - including decontamination, infection prevention, microbiology and theatres — recently gathered at Chester's Crown Plaza to exchange ideas and solve mutual problems. During the two-day CSC Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM), delegates were invited to consider whether "improvements we have traditionally made, need to be revolutionised". As always, the CSC committee developed a programme designed to provoke discussion, share expert knowledge and raise awareness.
This year's ASM looked at why we need to report decontamination incidents; the challenges in theatres and how these impact sterile services; whether automated manual washing is a 'risk or revolution?'; and provided an insight into the implementation of 'a revolution' in endoscope cleaning.
Ultimately, attendees at the meeting were prompted to consider the question: can we embrace risk as being a legitimate avenue for action with scope for fundamental change, and revolutionise the delivery of efficient solutions within the decontamination sector?
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