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The Economics of Prefilled Syringes - August 2017 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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pleted," she says. "So I can determine if there was a fallout, and if so, I can work with environmental services to determine why. Was the room closed? Were there trauma cases in the OR? Sometimes there are reasons you can't get into a room." All of the ORs at Lehigh Valley are done on a rotational basis, too, says Ms. Burger. "It can take us a week to get through all of them, but we know that every week, they get at least get one exposure." 3. Fight clusters. At Lehigh Valley, any time there's a cluster out- break — which they define as 3 or more cases in a given unit of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Acinetobacter or some other infection — a robot is put into action until that cluster is elimi- nated. "We have clear evidence that when we use the robot along with other interventions, we're able to stop a cluster outbreak," says Ms. Burger. 4. Take advantage of downtime. When the OSS Health Ambulatory Surgery Center in York, Pa., closes down for the night, the center's 2 disinfecting robots light up the night, hitting all 4 OR suites, as well as pre-op, PACU, breakrooms, restrooms and lounges — with the help of environmental services, of course. The process takes about an hour and 20 minutes and some extra labor, but it helps provide peace of mind, says Director of Ancillary Services Mike Nestlebush, MBA, CMRP. "We do a tremendous amount of manual cleaning, but that gets you to a certain place and then kind of hits a wall," he says. "The technology behind the UV robots allows us to not be limited by what the environmental services staff can clean. It can hit areas that they may not be hitting as well as they should, or that they can't reach." 7 0 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • A U G U S T 2 0 1 7

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