In order to promote the implementation of the three standards of central sterile supply department (CSSD), new standards for cleaning and disinfection/sterilization of flexible endoscope, dental instruments, and environmental surface in healthcare, this article elaborates about central management of CSSD; management of loaners and implants; technique of autoclave sterilization, ethylene oxide sterilization, and hydrogen peroxide sterilization; high level disinfection or sterilization of flexible endoscope; disinfection and sterilization of dental instruments; daily and enhanced cleaning and disinfection of environmental surface in healthcare facilities. This could help clinical healthcare workers to implement these new standards, effectively prevent nosocomical infection, and guarantee the personal safety of patients.
According to the requirements for the “three districts and two channels” in the sanitary industry standard Technique Standard for Isolation in Hospitals, combining with the spirit of current documents related to the prevention and control of coronavirus disease 2019, in order to guide medical institutions at all levels to conduct standardized design of fever clinics in accordance with the principle of “combining normal time and epidemic period”, this article explains the design points of the fever clinics for the prevention and control of coronavirus disease 2019, introduces the specific methods for the fever clinics to achieve “three districts and two channels”, draws a schematic diagram of the fever clinics in general hospitals, and explains the functional layout and medical procedures of the clean area, potential contaminated area, and contaminated area in detail; at the same time, a schematic diagram of the change of fever clinics from “normal” to “during the epidemic” is drawn, and the ideas for the conversion and the process after the conversion are introduced. It proposes design ideas and drawing references for the construction, transformation, and expansion of fever clinics.