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The Future of Knee Repair - February 2016 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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Full circle At the end of sterilization cycles, staff members in the instrument stor- age area scan barcodes on blue wrap bundles and rigid containers to record where the instruments are kept, including specific locations along shelves in assigned rows. When the surgical team needs to pick sets and individual instruments for case carts headed back to the ORs, they know exactly where the items are located. It's an efficient start to a process that's about to be repeated yet again. OSM F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 6 • O U T PA T I E N TS U R G E R Y. N E T • 9 3 Mr. Voigt (mark.voigt@centracare.com) is the coordinator of processing and sterilization at St. Cloud (Minn.) Hospital.

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