26th WORLD STERILIZATION CONGRESS
3rd – 6th of DECEMBER 2025, Hong Kong, Asiaworld-Expo
Congress Website: wfhss-congress.com
3rd – 6th of DECEMBER 2025, Hong Kong, Asiaworld-Expo
Congress Website: wfhss-congress.com
20th – 23rd of NOVEMBER 2024, Santiago, Chile
Congress Website: wfhss-congress.com
Matías Pilasi Pendás: Importance of process validation according to ISO
Bianca Winkler: Process validation in real practice – a case study from a german hospital
Dr. Christine Delebecque, President: 10 years of experience and observation, so what?
Round Table 1: Improvement of the practices: What are the obstacles?
Hamid Zare Shah Mers: AI for Developing Countries CSSDs: Threat or Opportunity?
Round Table 2: Innovation and green
Dr. Michelle Alfa Ph.D.: Importance of Dry Storage to prevent biofilm formation
Patricia Gutiérrez Alegría: Good practices in reprocessing from the point of use
Dr. Gerhard Kirmse: Cleaning – How to do it? What is good enough?
Eric Smith: Basics of Safe Endoscopic Reprocessing
Martijn Gerritsen: The Self Regulating Student
Menno DUFOUR, Ph.D.: Sterilization Wrap – Checklist for CSSD Manager
Simon Pletzer: Influence of the load positioning during a steam sterilization cycle
Roel Beltran Castillo: Change Management: A Critical Part of Leadership Success
Nathkritta Sookchum: Optimizing CSSD Operations with QR Code Tracking
Norma Isabel Hermann: Nonconformity and risk management on product
Karin Bundgaard: Transportation Environment of Contaminated Instruments before Reprocessing
18th – 21st of OCTOBER 2023
Lionel Pineau: Comparison of endoscope sampling and culturing methods
Matthias Tschoerner: Hygiene safety and resource savings in automated cleaning – A contradiction?
Mads Granlie: Surgical Instrument Tray Optimization and Standardization at AUH
Mireille Ferlita: Reprocessing Dental Handpieces: A Hope for all and dental Practices?
Hannah Siwe: Evaluation of a UV-C LED device for disinfection of medical instruments
Randal Eveland: Hospital Sterilization of 3D printed devices
Hugh O’Connor: Global Warming of PCDs
Xin Zhao: A Study of Establishment and Evaluation of a Risk Prediction Model for Steam Sterilization
Jolanda Buijs and Jolyn van der Beek: Agreement on standardised, automated and global sharing of CSSD information
Richard Bancroft: Global Medical Device Standards & Their Acceptability for Regulatory Purposes
Philippe Destrez: ISO 22441 standard for validation of the H2O2 sterilizers explained
David De Baets: Surgical Instrument Traceability in Sterilization: Legal Obligation vs Necessity?
Hamid Zare: Sterilization Risk Management in developing countries
Roel Beltran Castillo: Mental Health in the department: Lessons Learned from the pandemic
Date: 16th / 19th NOVEMBER 2022
Congress-Website: www.wfhss-congress.com
Christine Denis: Opening Speech
Session 01:
Nicolas Lavielle: The physics of sterilization
Nathan Ronsse: Low temperatur steam formaldehyde sterilization
Session 02:
Rodolphe C. Hervé: Endoscopy in the 21st century
Michael Beekes: Alpha-Synuclein Seeds of Parkinson´s Disease…
Session 03:
Frank Daniels: To Borescope Or Not To Borescope
Session 04:
Matthias Buhmann: New insights into chemical passivation of stainless surgical steel…
Mathias Tschoerner: Methods for the decontamination of process chemical residues…
Karen Seekamp-Schnieder: Statistical evaluation of protein levels of test objects…
Session 05:
Lionel Pineau: Endoscope reprocessing: Retrospective analysis of 90311 samples
William Leiva: Assessment of novel antimicrobial material to prevent biofilm formation…
Session 06:
Francesco Tessarolo: Monitoring steam penetration in channeled instruments…
Session 07:
François Barbier: Individual surgical instrument traceability…
Olivier Willieme: Modeling a tool for planning a new CSSD
Session 08:
Terra Kremer: The Impact of Time and Environmental Conditions on Contaminated Instrumentation
Sulisti Holmes: Investigation of the Release of Particles During Phacoemulsification Procedures
Session 09:
Mayra Samara Ordoñez Díaz: Sustainable development in sterilization departments: A first approach
Mercedes García Haro: Safety within the RUMED Debunking myths (Spanish)
Date: 17th – 20th of NOVEMBER 2021
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Date: October 30th to November 2nd, 2019
Congress website: wfhss2019thehague.com
Date: October 31th to November 3rd, 2018
Presentations:
Momentos para la higiene de manos
Mexico WFHSS 10.2018 How to Reduce Patient Defenses (1)
Leccion Aprendida de Incidentes de Descontaminacion-
Lean Production meets Hygienics
THE VIRUCIDAL EFFICACY OF VARIOUS METHODS OF LARYNGEAL MASK AIRWAY DECONTAMINATION
Sulisti Holmes-WHFSS -2018-English- Final
Shelf life of sterilized medical devices-LBerger-Congres Mondial Mexico 1-3.11.2018COMM
Estudio para evidenciar la mejor posicion para estandarizar una cargaYANGHAIYI 1003
Comparison of Different Low Temperature Sterilization Methods
How to Reduce Patient Defenses
Date: October 4th to October 7th, 2017
Location and Venue: World Conference Center