Guideline Update 2025: Packaging Systems
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0.5 contact hoursCompletion Time
30 minutesAvailable Until
October 29, 2026Navigate
Overview
Clinical Topics
SurgeryThe Guideline for Sterilization Packaging Systems provides guidance for perioperative teams about evaluating, selecting, and using sterilization packaging systems and for packaging the items to be sterilized and subsequently used in operative and other invasive procedures. A systematic review of the current literature was conducted on this topic, and this guideline was updated. The relevant key takeaways and changes to the guideline will be presented in this webinar.
Learning Objectives
1. Discuss changes to guideline recommendations.
2. Describe examples of guideline key takeaways in practice.
3. Discuss implementation strategies for guideline updates.
Speakers
Amber is a Senior Perioperative Practice Specialist at AORN where she has served as lead author of several guidelines. She offers clinical information to members via the AORN Consult Line and contributes regularly to the Clinical Issues column in the AORN Journal. Amber has served as a member of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), liaison to the CDC Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), and is a fellow of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
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This activity offers 0.5 contact hours to attendees.
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