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SpauldingClassification.TheSpauldingclassificationschemewasdevisedasalogicalwaytodeterminethedisinfectionschemesrequiredforitemsusedduring​ ...

The Spaulding classification scheme was devised as a logical way to determine the disinfection schemes required for items used during patient care. Despite being over half a century old, it remains the clearest and most concise way of assessing an objects infection risk. This is important as it ensures all items receive an appropriate level of decontamination without overburdening an infection control system.

Objects are split into one of three categories depending on their normal use. An item can either be critical, semicritical or noncritical. Critical items pose the highest threat of infection transmission while noncritical pose the lowest. Items in different classes go through different decontamination processes.

These are objects that are designed to contact normally sterile tissue (like blood) or enter the vascular system. Any microbial load on such an obj...