Support & Services For over 65 years, Consolidated has designed and manufactured its products around four basic concepts: Reliability Serviceability Functionality Cost Effectiveness Reliability and serviceability are very important to our customers and our service representatives. As a result of our attention to these two attributes, Consolidated’s products experience the least amount of downtime in the industry. With a focus on functionality, we aim to incorporate off-the-shelf, non-proprietary components into our products. This allows our customers a wide variety of options for service and component replacement throughout the life of the sterilizer. Although we maintain a supply of replacement parts, most parts can be found through locally available suppliers; emphasizing the importance of keeping costs down.
7.12.23 Cordyceps Sterilization: How to Kill “The Last of Us” Parasite → In HBO’s recent adaptation of “The Last of Us,” a popular action-adventure video game, life as we know it is upended by a parasitic fungus that transforms its human hosts into zombies. The culprit? Cordyceps, a real-life genus of fungus which is best known for infecting insects (most famously ants) in much the same manner […]
6.30.23 Top 13 Sterile Processing Mistakes in Hospitals → When it comes to ensuring patient safety in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), the Sterile Processing Department (SPD) is among the last lines of defense. It’s this department’s sole responsibility to make sure that reusable instruments and devices are properly decontaminated, sterilized, and ultimately safe to use in future procedures — protecting patients from […]
6.22.23 Sterilization vs. High-Level and Low-Level Disinfection [a 3-Point Comparison] → In a 1939 paper, microbiologist Earle H. Spaulding introduced a system for determining which medical devices and instruments needed disinfection and which ones required sterilization. In it, he proposed that critical instruments would need to be subjected to more stringent disinfection protocols than non-critical patient care items. Today, this framework is fittingly known as Spaulding […]
