My advice on this issue is that a hospital needs all of the above! You basically need a mix of all available disinfecting and sterilizing technologies in order to meet the demands placed upon modern CSSD’s, TSSU’s (or whatever). Unfortunately, there is no one magic “silver bullet” on this one, Sajeev! Take care, though, not to over-do things. Some of the latest disinfecting agents are very aggressive, and certainly can be a maintenance headache (ie, they can attack the machine as much as they attack the bugs)! One last comment would have to be that a lot depends upon the quality of the CSSD staff. This might sound obvious, but think again! From my own observations, a lot of these guys reside firmly in the past! A wise man one said “If your only tool is a hammer, then all your problems look like nails”!
