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When Clean is Not Clean Enough

By John Verrico-john.verrico@dhs.gov on Dec 26, 2011   Health  

Some solutions are just no-brainers. Take medical backboards, for example, those hard plastic boards used to stabilize patients during emergencies before the patient is lifted onto the gurney and hurried into the ambulance. After each call, technicians scrub down their equipment to avoid exposing the next patient to diseases, microbes or bodily fluids, but despite […]

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