less than 20 minutes, rather than 2 hours.
"With the growing demand for faster turnover of surgical proce-
dures, particularly in high-volume situations, reprocessing of med-
ical devices in a timely fashion has been an ongoing challenge,"
notes Ms. Segal.
One Tray is ideally suited for high-turnover loaner sets. The contain-
ers provide for the safe storage, transport and ensured delivery of the
enclosed devices in a sealed container with tamper-evident security
and load record documentation. It eliminates the waste associated
with the wrapping of surgical instrumentation and orthopedic loaner
sets.
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Transportation
labels.
Are you
transporting clean
instruments to the OR
and then using the
same system to trans-
port dirty instruments
to your sterile process-
ing department? One
frequently encoun-
tered problem when
using the same bin or
cart for both clean and
dirty instrument trans-
port is the lack of a biohazard symbol, which places the facility in vio-
lation of OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogen Standard, says Ms. Perri.
One innovative solution is the Transportation Identification Tag,
Healthmark's 2-part labeling system. The top layer is the "clean"
4 4 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 9
• IS THAT CART CLEAN OR DIRTY? The Transportation Identification Tag from
Healthmark.
