port instruments back and forth. We came up
with several different design concepts, includ-
ing having a dedicated sterilizer and deconta-
mination room behind each OR. But in the
end, we chose the design you might expect:
We have 3 operating rooms at one end of the
hall, 3 at the other end, and central sterile
right smack in the middle.
Dry and cool times can be two of the most
time-consuming steps in reprocessing and
sterilization of instruments, but we've virtual-
ly eliminated it with an instrument container
system that has zero dry and cool time.
Eliminating 10 minutes of dry time per cycle
and 15 to 20 minutes of cool time when you're
doing 100 cases a day really adds up. The con-
tainer is also approved for a year of shelf stor-
age and use once sterilized.
One note from the you-can't-think-of-every-
thing department: We thought we'd anticipat-
ed every possible need for central sterile, but
discovered later that because we now had 4
autoclaves, we occasionally became the bak-
ery with too many cookies coming out of the
oven at the same time. Our trays needed
space to cool, and if 8 or 10 happened to
come out more or less simultaneously, there
wasn't enough counter space for all of them.
So, we reconfigured, brought in open wire
racks and positioned them adjacent to the
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