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Reprocessing of reusable medical devices and equipment in aged care
Date & time: Wednesday 17 December 2025, 2.00 PM AEDT
Presenter: Carrie Spinks, ACIPC IPC Consultant
Guest Speaker: Terry McAuley, Director, STEAM Consulting Pty Ltd
MSc Medical Device Decontamination; Grad Dip Education and Training; Cert Mgt Decontamination Reusable Medical Devices (UK); Cert Sterilization and Infection Control; Cert Perioperative Nursing; Cert Operating Suite Management; RN; MACIPC, MACORN, MCNA
Reusable medical devices are used on a day-to-day basis in the delivery of healthcare across a range of practice settings. Medical devices can be categorised as critical, semi-critical or non-critical and it is essential for health professionals to be able to confidently assess which category a medical device belongs to in order to ensure that these devices are cleaned, and where necessary disinfected correctly between patient uses. This presentation will:
- examine the Spaulding Classification and how to allocate reusable medical devices to the correct classification
- explore the regulatory environment as it applies to cleaning agents and disinfectants used to reprocess reusable medical devices
- describe the principles of effective cleaning and disinfection in the aged care setting
About the speaker:
Terry is a passionate advocate for the achievement of best practice in reprocessing reusable medical devices and is committed to sharing her knowledge with her colleagues and peers. She represented ACIPC on the Standards Australia Committee HE-023 responsible for AS/NZS4187 and AS/NZS4815 (now AS5369) for over 20 years. Terry contributed Chapter 16 Disinfection and Sterilisation in the textbook Healthcare-Associated Infections In Australia – Principles and Practices of Infection Prevention and Control.
Terry has extensive expertise in reprocessing reusable medical devices; and infection prevention and control across a range of practice settings and has authored the ApodA Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines for Podiatrists and a number of other IPC and reprocessing resources during her career.
To register, please click the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Cl6dS_H8SZmWfHZF5lD0Hg
Can’t make the webinar, or want to watch it again? A recording of the webinar will be available afterwards on the ACIPC website, you can access it by clicking the link below:
https://www.acipc.org.au/acipc-aged-care-community-of-practice-webinar-series/