ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A world first has arrived in Rochester. It’s called a clean cube operating room and it’s set to open at the UR Medicine Orthopedics Surgery Center in Henrietta in the coming weeks.

The first prefabricated operating room in the world with fully automated disinfection technology opened recently at the University of Rochester Medicine Orthopedics Surgery Center in Henrietta, N.Y.

Roughly 290,00 patients every year contract infections while undergoing surgery, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those infections cost billions of dollars in health-care ...

The First Step Flexible Endoscope Bedside Pre-Clean Kit from Cygnus Medical enables GI surgery centers to removing visible bioburden after a procedure — an essential first step in the reprocessing of ...