at the instrument level, including specific usage, functional issues,
repairs and manufacturer recalls. Taken together with the increasing
power of big-data to connect previously unrelated data points, UDI
will push surgical safety into the new millennium.
No use resisting
Teleportation of sur-
gical supplies and
force fields to protect
your sterile core
didn't make our futur-
istic list, but these 8
technologies are real
and within reach of
every reprocessing
department in the
country. Many of
these concepts are
already at work in
other areas of health-
care, and some, such
as augmented reality,
are already in use in
the perioperative set-
ting.
Even though many
reprocessing depart-
ments may still have
autoclaves older than
some of the techni-
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