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Publications & Guidance

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Standards & Guidelines

  • Operational Management of EDUs

    Health Service Executive Standards and Recommended Practices for Operational Management of Endoscope Decontamination Facilities

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  • Testing in EDUs

    HSE Standards and Recommended Practices for Commissioning, Validation and Testing in Endoscope Decontamination Facilities

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  • Endoscopy Reprocessing

    HSE Standards and Recommended Practices for Endoscopy Reprocessing Units

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  • Primary Care & Local Decontamination

    Guidance for Application of Standards and Recommended Practices in Primary Care Local Decontamination Units

    HSE Code of Practice for Dental LDU

    HSE Code of Practice for Dental CDU

  • Central Decontamination

    Standards and Recommended Practices for Central Decontamination Unit

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  • Loan Instruments

    Recommended Best Practice for Use of RIMDs on trial / loan to/from other Hospitals and/or Companies / Suppliers

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  • World Health Organisation

    Decontamination and Reprocessing of Medical Devices for Healthcare Facilities

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  • Irish Decontamination Institute

    The Irish Association of Sterile Services Managers was established in 1989 and changed its name to Irish Decontamination Institute in January 2011. Its aim is to ensure its members are up to date with developments in sterile services and to network this information to hospital sterile service departments throughout Ireland.

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  • World Forum for Hospital Sterile Services

    The primary mission of WFHSS is to contribute ensuring that patients all around the world are treated with high-quality medical devices. A necessary condition for this is that infrastructure, materials, consumables, working methods and training of staff meet essential requirements. The indirect effect is the recognition of the CSSD as a fully-fledged, supportive and constructive department of the hospital.

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  • HSE Standards and Recommended Practices for Facility Design and Equipping of EDUs QPSD-D-022-1

    Health Service Executive Standards and Recommended Practices for Facility Design and Equipping of Endoscope Decontamination Units. The Standards and Recommended Practices are a guide to support the design and equipping of Endoscope Decontamination Units based on current legal requirements and professional best practice

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  • Health Service Executive Guidance for Decontamination of Semi‐critical Ultrasound Probes; Semi‐invasive and Non‐invasive Ultrasound Probes

    Guidance for Decontamination of Semi‐critical Ultrasound Probes is based on best available evidence and professional best practice. With kind permission this document has been adapted to the Irish Healthcare context, from Health Facilities Scotland’s Guidance Document for Decontamination of Ultrasound Probes published March 2016.

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