Surgical site infections (SSI) are one of the leading causes of clinical and economic burden for healthcare systems worldwide. According...
Prof. Dr. Ojan Assadian, President of the Austrian Society for Hospital Hygiene (ÖGKH) and Medical Director at the State Hospital...
This document (EN 13795-2:2019) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 205 “Non-active medical devices” (Secretariat: DIN, Germany) with the...
This document (EN 13795-1:2019) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 205 “Non-active medical devices” (Secretariat: DIN, Germany) with the...
Would you like to send your friends and colleagues special - and sustainable - Christmas greetings this year? Then simply...
In 2016, nearly 59 million operations and medical procedures were conducted in German hospitals. According to a representative analysis, surgical...
Independent specialist for hygiene and environmental medicine Prof Dr Günter Kampf advises hospitals, physicians’ practices, producers of medical products and...
Every year, 400,000 to 600,000 infections occur in German hospitals. Axel Kramer (specialist for hygiene and environmental medicine), Tina Leeb...
Contaminated surgical instruments, deficits in the Central Sterile Supply Department (CSSD) or errors in the cleaning, disinfection or in the...
Every medical procedure is accompanied by a risk of infection. With a share of approximately 22 per cent, SSI are...
