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Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities (2008)
Disinfection and Sterilization Guideline – Print Version[PDF – 1.26 MB]
Updates
See updates to this guideline.
- Ebola Virus Disease
- Flexible GI Endoscope Reprocessing
- Environmental Fogging
Summary of Recommendations
| Category IA | Strongly recommended for implementation and strongly supported by well-designed experimental, clinical, or epidemiologic studies. |
| Category IB | Strongly recommended for implementation and supported by some experimental, clinical, or epidemiologic studies, and by a strong theoretical rationale. |
| Category IC | Required by state or federal regulations. Because of state differences, readers should not assume that the absence of an IC recommendation implies the absence of state regulations. |
| Category II | Suggested for implementation and supported by suggestive clinical or epidemiologic studies or by a theoretical rationale. |
| No recommendation | Unresolved issue. These include practices for which insufficient evidence or no consensus exists regarding efficacy. |
On this Page
- Occupational health and exposure
- Cleaning of patient-care devices
- Indications for sterilization, high-level disinfection, and low-level disinfection
- Selection and use of low-level disinfectants for noncritical patient-care devices
- Cleaning and disinfecting environmental surfaces in healthcare facilities
- Disinfectant fogging
- High-level disinfection of endoscopes
- Management of equipment and surfaces in dentistry
- Processing patient-care equipment contaminated with …
- Disinfection strategies for other semicritical devices
- Disinfection by healthcare personnel in ambulatory care and home care
- Microbial contamination of disinfectants
- Flash sterilization
- Methods of sterilization
- Packaging
- Monitoring of sterilizers
- Load configuration
- Storage of sterile items
- Quality control
- Reuse of single-use medical devices