I’ll be an educator and participant at BMXnet
This October for World Standards Day 2013.
technology
Processing Devices
Standards are useful, and guidance based on evidence is often even more so.
Scope
This guidance provides recommendations regarding reuse instructions in labeling for reusable medical devices and the validation of the recommended reprocessing process in the instructions. The recommendations are applicable to the three device reprocessing situations below.
Brasil 2nd Congress
Brian Skellie at the 2ND Educational Congress for Professional Body Piercers in Brasil
Bravo
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Brian Skellie teaches immediate use sterilization skills in Italy at APTPI Congress
Brian Skellie teaches sterilization skills for the professional body piercer and tattooist in Milan at the 7th APTPI congress
World Standards Day at BMXnet
I am teaching Biomaterials standards for body art at the BMXnet conference in Essen, Germany this month for World Standards Day, the celebration of the birth of ISO October 14th, 1946. ASTM International will participate in the U.S. celebration of World Standards Day, sponsored by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) on Oct. 13 in Washington, D.C. This year’s … Read more
Ethical algorithms?
Ever wonder why we get different results when we search for the same thing? I don’t think it is a glass half empty/half full thing. It seems evident that the internet is serving as both the library and news journal for many of us, and that our machine personalized search results from Google, Yahoo, Bing and the rest are skewed in different ways. This has been apparent on Facebook as well, perhaps in a more obvious way when some of our friends’ disappeared from our news feeds.
Selected freehand piercings
Here is a glimpse of a few piercings I performed during an exhibition for colleagues in New England. I enjoy sharing ideas and techniques with my peers. Let me know what you think.
My goal is an atraumatic aseptic technique: Primum non nocere
All of these piercings were performed without clamps using the STATIM 2000 autoclave, sterilized single use equipment, sterile nitrile gloves, and the titanium jewelry was anodized with the Reactive Metals Micro anodizer.
Preparing nonwoven gauze compresses for drapes 
Diamond cutout for drape window 
Simple setup in the Statim 2000 cassette 
Male nipple piercing without clamps 
Eyebrow piercing without clamps 
Tragus piercing posterior to anterior without clamps 
Aseptic navel piercing with sterile gloves and fenestrated sterile drape. 
An example of surgical use for a fenestrated sterile drape 
An example sterile drape