Incision

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Welcome back to our series on the inner workings of the Sterile Processing Department (SPD). In our previous article, "Sterile Processing and the Operating Room: Why Patient Safety Can't Be Rushed", we emphasized the importance of embracing the 4.5-hour Sterilization is the standard to ensure a patient’s safety.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A lumbar discectomy is a life-changing procedure for many patients suffering from back pain due to a herniated disc. A lumbar discectomy is a minimally invasive procedure designed to relieve pressure on spinal nerves caused by a herniated disc in the lower back. This prep work allows the surgeon to focus entirely on the procedure.

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SpecialtyCare

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Sterile Processing Consulting 4. Enhanced Patient Safety and Outcomes 8. SpecialtyCare’s Comprehensive Approach to Surgical Services SpecialtyCare offers hospitals a wide range of surgical services that enhance the precision, safety, and success of various procedures. Intraoperative Neuromonitoring (IONM) 2.

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SpecialtyCare

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

A Surgical First Assistant (SFA) is a vital member of the surgical team, working closely with surgeons to ensure the success of surgical procedures. Postoperative Care : After the procedure, SFAs apply dressings to surgical wounds, assist in transferring patients to recovery areas, and monitor for immediate postoperative complications.

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SpecialtyCare

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This evolution has led to a growing demand for skilled professionals specializing in minimally invasive surgical support, ensuring these advanced procedures are conducted safely and efficiently. Ensuring Sterility and Safety: Upholding strict sterilization protocols to prevent infections and maintain a safe surgical environment.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

They are responsible for maintaining a sterile environment, assisting surgeons, and ensuring patient safety throughout the surgical process. This involves sterilizing instruments, setting up equipment, and ensuring all safety protocols are followed.

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SpecialtyCare

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

This closed-loop system ensures that the blood remains sterile and reduces the reliance on banked blood. It is particularly beneficial in surgeries involving significant blood loss, such as cardiac, orthopedic, vascular, and trauma-related procedures. This blood is anticoagulated to prevent clotting during the collection process.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Surgical assistants, RNFAs (Registered Nurse First Assistants), and PAs (Physician Assistants) are critical team members who directly impact the efficiency and safety of every procedure. This level of coordination is not only practical; it also significantly reduces the time spent on each procedure. Here’s why.

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BFW Inc.

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Daymark Victory surgical headlight stands out with its innovative airflow design, which directs air upwards and away from the sterile field. This makes Daymark Victory a valuable addition to any surgical facility by offering advanced technology and practical benefits that enhance both performance and safety.

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SpecialtyCare

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These services are tailored to support complex cardiac procedures by providing a range of skilled clinical professionals, such as perfusionists, anesthesiologists, and surgical assistants. Their expertise ensures that even the most challenging procedures are carried out with the highest standards of safety and efficiency.

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SpecialtyCare

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This technique is particularly beneficial in surgeries with anticipated significant blood loss, such as cardiac, orthopedic, and vascular procedures. SpecialtyCare’s Autotransfusion Services At SpecialtyCare, we provide comprehensive autotransfusion services tailored to the specific needs of each surgical procedure.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Whether it’s a heart bypass or valve replacement, these procedures require precision and teamwork. Surgical assistants work closely with surgeons to ensure safe and efficient procedures. Some of their main tasks include: Preparing the Operating Room : Surgical assistants ensure all equipment is sterile and ready.

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SpecialtyCare

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The sterile processing department (SPD) and the OR work hand in hand, but communication between the two can be disjointed and incomplete, resulting in unnecessary waste and preventable errors. OR Manager recommends a committee specifically to handle challenges such as when to use immediate-use steam sterilization. #4

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Jalal Surgical

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Circumcision surgery is a medical procedure that involves the removal of the foreskin , the fold of skin covering the head (glans) of the penis. This surgical intervention is one of the oldest and most common procedures worldwide, often performed for cultural, religious, or medical reasons. What Is CIRCUMCISION sURGERY?

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Traverse rectus abdominal muscle, flap (TRAM Flap), commonly used in breast reconstruction procedures, are intricate surgeries that demand precision and teamwork; for plastic surgeons performing these complex operations, having a skilled surgical assistant can significantly enhance the procedure’s success and efficiency.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Trans abdominal flaps, commonly used in breast reconstruction procedures, are intricate surgeries that demand precision and teamwork, for plastic surgeons performing these complex operations, having a skilled surgical assistant can significantly enhance the procedure’s success and efficiency.

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Platinum Meidcal Staffing

AUGUST 29, 2024

In the highly specialized field of plastic surgery, having a reliable and skilled team is essential to delivering top-notch results and ensuring patient safety. Their responsibilities include: Preoperative Preparation: Ensuring the operating room is ready, sterilizing instruments, and preparing patients for surgery. and Virginia areas.

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SpecialtyCare

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

By focusing on quality, efficiency, and innovation, SpecialtyCare ensures that SFAs are empowered to deliver top-tier assistance, directly impacting patient outcomes and the success of surgical procedures. SpecialtyCare’s team of SFAs fills these gaps, ensuring that surgeries are never delayed due to staffing issues.

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SpecialtyCare

OCTOBER 12, 2024

This role involves advanced technology and direct involvement in the operating room, providing vital support during complex procedures. Sterile Processing : The Sterile Processing team plays a critical role in patient safety by ensuring all surgical instruments are clean, sterilized, and ready for use.

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Trocar Supplies

AUGUST 21, 2023

Used by various professionals, autoclaves play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and well-being of both patients and practitioners. When it comes to surgical procedures, dental treatments, laboratory experiments, hormone pellet therapy, or the artistry of tattoos, cleanliness, and sterility are of paramount importance.

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Trocar Supplies

MARCH 6, 2023

Single-use supplies are used one time, for one procedure, for one patient. They are not designed to be sterilized and used again. Single-use surgical tools don't have to be cleaned and sterilized after they are used. Each instrument is sterile and ready for use. Improved patient safety. Lower labor costs.

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SpecialtyCare

OCTOBER 8, 2024

While the number of heart surgeries varies each year, Cleveland Clinic reveals that in 2018, close to half a million Americans had heart surgery , with the most common procedures being coronary artery bypass grafting and valve surgeries (minimally invasive valve repair procedures not included). is estimated to be valued at roughly $1.5

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OpFlow

DECEMBER 9, 2021

These publications span all surgical specialties and hospital settings, the full spectrum of procedure types, across pediatric and adult services lines. The situation has now reached a point where sterile processing departments at almost every hospital across the country are stretched well beyond capacity.

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Concordia Anesthesiology

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Patients should be told to arrive at precisely the right time in advance of their procedure. Case add-ons must be prioritized based on the acuity of the patient, anticipated length of the procedure, and availability of resources. Shortening the time only leads to added stress, impacting both patient and staff safety.

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Jalal Surgical

DECEMBER 17, 2022

They come with a locking mechanism high up on the forks that helps keep them to the ground during surgical procedures. A procedure called hemostasis. The safety handle has a protective sheath and is intended to be used with a normal blade to reduce the risk to the surgeon and assistant when passing instruments. BP Handle No.

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Trocar Supplies

MAY 3, 2023

Between October 15, 2018 and March 31, 2019 the FDA received 159 device reports of infected duodenoscopes, snake-like cameras with a lighted end, used in procedures involving the pancreas and bile ducts. times as many duodenoscopes to deal with patient load because of the extra time required to keep instruments sterile.

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The Circulating Life

OCTOBER 10, 2022

I’m frustrated with the sterile processing department (SPD). Priorities Surgery requires sterile instruments. Without surgery and sterile procedures, SPD is unnecessary. And without sterile instruments, surgery and sterile procedures can’t happen. Sure, errors are irritating.

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Elmed

JANUARY 11, 2022

Over the past year there has been a lot of increased emphasis and attention placed on pre-cleaning surgical instruments at the point of use prior to transport to sterile reprocessing. This new, increased emphasis on pre-cleaning is important to you, your facility and most importantly, to your patients and their safety. Section 7.3

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Elmed

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Improper or inadequate decontamination, cleaning and sterilization of surgical instruments continues to be a major source of patient harm that is preventable through proper practice and adherence to manufacturers’ instructions for use (IFUs). by placing the contaminated instruments into sterile water or an approved enzymatic detergent.

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SpecialtyCare

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Many studies have shown that error tracking and a safety culture of reporting can significantly reduce the number of incidents coming out of the SPD. One particular study in BMJ Quality and Safety showed that SPD errors were affecting 5% of surgical cases , and once the root causes were identified, significant improvements were made.

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Jalal Surgical

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Spinal surgery is a medical procedure performed to address various conditions affecting the spine , including herniated discs, spinal stenosis, and deformities. Medical technology has led to less invasive procedures, which reduce recovery time and discomfort after surgery. What is the meaning of Spine Surgery? cm Caspar dura hook 24.5

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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

The specialty of the ASC: Some ASCs perform a wide variety of outpatient procedures. Others, on the other hand, only offer a few common procedures, which they do more of. This is especially true of newly established ASCs, they may focus on a limited number of procedures until their cash flow stabilizes.

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DFW Anesthesia Professionals

JANUARY 8, 2024

In the operating room (OR), teamwork is crucial for ensuring patient safety. Thus, stress from the demands of performing intricate procedures, learning to use new technologies, and the necessity to work quickly and efficiently are compounded by a lack of experience. Arora et al.

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BFW Inc.

JUNE 17, 2021

COVID-19 puts additional strain on hospital resources, due to the increased focus on sterilization and overcapacity of ICUs – improving hospital efficiency is a critical focus in response to these issues. In particular, better management of sterile instruments produces significant cost savings for hospitals.

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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With costs increasingly shifting to patients and an aging population needing more procedures, ASCs occupy a uniquely competitive place in the healthcare sector. Let’s take a closer look at those elements: Clinical Considerations While hundreds of factors impact an ASC’s earnings, the clinical procedures it performs ultimately drive revenue.

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BFW Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2021

So it should come as no surprise that — in a study of surgeons in low-resource settings — an incredible 80% reported that the quality of their surgical lights represents a patient safety risk. Low-quality lighting in the OR is a dangerous and avoidable hindrance to surgical procedures that can contribute to: Poor surgery outcomes.

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Radius Anesthesia

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Approximately 80% of drug shortages involve sterile injectable drugs, such as anesthetic agents and chemotherapy drugs (1). In clinical trials, the efficacy and safety characteristics of ciprofol were compared with those of propofol in different clinical scenarios (2).

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