Michael
Surgical (Wedding Cake) Crashers: 7 Surprising Things Your SPD Should Not Be Sterilizing
The average sterile processing department has a number of similarities with a wedding cake: lots of expensive ingredients mixed together and every step and ingredient have to be perfect, or it has the potential to ruin someone’s big day. And just like a wedding cake, there are certain things that should not be included in…
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Where Do They Go From Here?
For your peel-packed instruments, it’s a journey. They may get waved goodbye from sterile processing, but they still must travel through the continuum until they are deployed onto a sterile field for use. Their longest stay is almost certainly on the shelves and in the bins of the OR Core storage areas. Here they will…
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Why the Reps are in the Room
Beyond providing important emotional support, a primary reason (in addition to product expertise) reps are so necessary is because they are often the surgeon’s most reliable “preference card.” I recently heard a surgeon describe their rep as the only reliable constant between all their different hospitals. In addition to making sure the correct instrumentation and…
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