An Aberdeen surgical decontamination unit, which closed for almost four months, needs to be completely replaced. Hundreds of surgeries and procedures were delayed after an unknown substance was found ...

AN NHS surgical decontamination unit will have to be replaced after it was forced to close four months due to an unknown substance found on sterile surgical tools, according to a new report ...

Transfusion of blood or blood products, including occupational exposure to blood or body fluids. Several organisations provide advice on measures to reduce the risks from blood transfusion and ...

PERHAPS sparked by the devastating natural disasters and terrorist attacks the nation has experienced in the recent past, a renewed emphasis has been placed on ensuring that decontamination procedures ...

An unknown substance has been found on sterile surgical tools at a Scots hospital as procedures into their hundreds have been axed amid a decontamination unit remaining closed. NHS Grampian noted that ...

This guidance is for interventional procedures on tissues considered at high risk of transmitting Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD). These procedures on high-risk tissues are intradural surgery on the ...