SpecialtyCare
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
Enhancing Patient Safety with Stringent Sterile Processing Standards 2. In the healthcare environment, particularly in surgical settings, sterile processing is a foundational aspect of patient safety. Table of Contents 1. Improving Operational Efficiency with Streamlined Instrument Processing 3.
OR Manager
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Reliable and robust enough for daily use on most medical devices, steam is the most common sterilant in healthcare facilities. For example, too much More » The post Practice updates ease steam sterilization balancing act appeared first on OR Manager. However, using steam properly requires a balancing act.
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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Sterile processing is boring. After all, if something particularly exciting happens in your facility’s sterile processing department (SPD), it’s most likely a sign that things aren’t going well. And when a sterile processing department can do that, they can ensure an elite level of patient safety and satisfaction.
Incision
OCTOBER 3, 2023
A Partnership for Patient Care The Operating Room (OR) and the Sterile Processing Department (SPD) are two pillars that hold up the complex structure of frontline surgical care. The symbiotic relationship between the OR and the SPD is critical both for patient safety and staff well-being.
SpecialtyCare
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
The OR cannot function properly without an effective sterile processing department (SPD). Consistent, quality training, collaboration with the OR, safety culture, error tracking, and incentives for high performance can sufficiently optimize the SPD — and in turn, optimize the OR. But soft costs often prove to be much more damaging.
SpecialtyCare
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
The efficiency of the OR is directly tied to the efficiency of the sterile processing department (SPD). A handful of factors that can drag down SPD performance include cleaning or sterilization errors, staff turnover, complex instrumentation, a lack of safety culture, miscommunication, and delays.
OR Manager
AUGUST 28, 2024
For many in the healthcare industry, imagining surgery without onsite sterile processing seems unthinkable. Then again, performing total joints in an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) was unthinkable 10 years More » The post Offsite sterilization fuels onsite efficiency for lean ASCs appeared first on OR Manager.
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