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I N F E C T I O N
P R E V E N T I O N
Make Sterilization
Everyone's Job
FAST PACED With up to 12 trays open at any given time, the sterile processing department at DISC has its hands full.
Successful processing means SPD, nurses
and even reps must be on board.
Karen Reiter, RN | Los Angeles, Calif.
I
n our facility, because we do a lot of spine, implants are coming and
going all the time, and we want to know what trays are being used.
Not just "a spine tray," but "Tray X that was processed in Load Y on
this date." Anybody should be able to pick up a tracking card and locate
any instrument in our facility. We decided, as a team, on the most logical
way to label the trays — a way that wouldn't slow down SPD, and that
would make it easy for the nurses to see and record the information.
Tracking starts in SPD, where staff document tray name, load number and date. For the circulating nurse, there's a "surgical trays" secJ U N E 2013 | O U T PAT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E
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