While the Detroit Medical Center is making news after more than a decade of complaints about dirty, broken or missing surgical instruments was revealed, unclean medical instruments are nothing new, according to an article on the Modern Healthcare website.
The threat of infection from tainted medical instruments is growing as the devices become more complex and harder to clean.
The cleaning challenges raise questions about the employees who do the cleaning.
Reprocessing would appear to require, or might benefit from, additional training and a level of detail that wasn't required before, just because the technology has changed so much, one expert said.
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