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Robotic Instrument Storage
Robotic surgery provides many benefits to the patient including less invasive procedures, shorter hospital stays, and an overall shorter recovery time. However, these benefits come
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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
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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
September 14, 2022 No Comments
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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
September 12, 2022 No Comments
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Why So Dry?
Proper cleaning, rinsing, and drying of medical devices are critical steps to successful low temperature sterilization. While the importance of cleaning is obvious to most
September 12, 2022 No Comments
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Wrapped Rules
While there are a few options for storing sterilized instrumentation, the most common is blue wrapped instrument sets. While blue wrap is easy to use
September 5, 2022 No Comments
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Scope Storage Standards
Improperly cleaned and stored endoscopes can cost patients and facilities a great deal. To ensure your patients are safe, there are several things to consider
August 15, 2022 No Comments
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Why Vendor Scheduling is a Challenge
The vast majority of late loaners are related to breakdowns in communication. Some hospitals believe if they could control the process for notifying the reps
August 15, 2022 No Comments
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Make Mine a Single
Do you read your packaging IFUs? . . . you should. Do you double peel pack? . . . you probably shouldn’t. Most surveyors will
August 9, 2022 No Comments
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Routine Monitoring- What Should I Know? Part 2
Continuing from our last post around routine monitoring, let’s jump into biological indicators (BI) and process challenge devices (PCD). BIs contain a microorganism resistant to
August 8, 2022 No Comments