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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is advising its inspectors that the outmoded term “flash sterilization” has been largely dropped in healthcare in favor of the term “immediate use steam sterilization” (IUSS). CMS has issued a memorandum that goes beyond semantics by emphasizing that IUSS is a more rigorous process.

Flash sterilization’ dropped -- CMS looks for properly performed `immediate-use’ measures

Agency tells surveyors that the two terms are not equivalent