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On 7 April, MATACHANA started its second series of WEBINARS of the year 2021, with an inspiring seminar on “Biofilms and their impact on the reprocessing of medical devices”. More than 195 persons from Spain and South America participated in this session, where the mechanisms of biofilm generation and the biochemical properties that cause their high resistance to aseptic processes developed in RUMED were reviewed.  The conditions that favour their formation and the threat they pose to the correct reprocessing of instruments were also reviewed.

Finally, an analysis was made of the new generations of multi-enzymatic detergents that have been developed specifically to prevent the proliferation of this form of microbial resistance, considered one of the main causes of infection transmitted in hospitals.

After the presentation, an extensive debate over the questions was generated with the attendees, which solved many everyday doubts of our sterilization units.

In parallel with the broadcast, there was a draw of 3 books by the engineer Jan Huys, on “Sterilization of Medical Supplies by Steam”, which went to these 3 supervisors of RUMED:

  • Sra. Maria Aramburu, from the Hospital Arquitecto Marcide de Ferrol, La Coruña
  • Sra. Adela Maria Antuña, from the Medical Centre of Asturias, Spain
  • Sra. María Pérez Hernández, from the Hospital Universitario la Candelaria, Tenerife.

Thank you very much to all the participants and congratulations to the winners. We look forward to seeing you in our next Webinars!