7 steps to reducing flash sterilization rate.
Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH, reduced its rate of flash sterilization from 17% to 1.85%.Inventory was increased, and one-of-a-kid instruments were custom manufactured. More general instruments were kept up sterile.Case scheduling was adjusted to avoid demand for one-of-a-kind instr...
| Publicado en: | Same-Day Surgery Vol. 32; no. 10; pp. 108 - 110 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Relias LLC
Oct2008
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| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| Sumario: | Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH, reduced its rate of flash sterilization from 17% to 1.85%.Inventory was increased, and one-of-a-kid instruments were custom manufactured. More general instruments were kept up sterile.Case scheduling was adjusted to avoid demand for one-of-a-kind instruments in back-to-back cases.When instruments weren't available, staff were told to obtain additional ones from other sets.Vendors ensured instrument sets they owned arrived 24 hours before cases.All instrument decontamination and sterilization was moved to central processing.They bought a computerized instrument tracking system. |
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