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Special Outpatient Surgery Edition - Infection Control - May 2018

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decision for our facility. Still looking to add You need adequate case volume to support the switch to rigid containers. We began by transitioning our arthroscopy tools to rigid containers and eventually did the same for instruments from other high-volume specialties, including plastics and podiatry. We still use blue wrap for instruments used during general surgery, ENT and oculoplastics because we don't yet have the volume to justify investing in rigid containers for those specialties. But I'm constantly watching to see if the blue wrap starts to pile up after those procedures. If it does, I'll perform another cost analysis and won't hesitate to add more containers. OSM M A y 2 0 1 8 • O U T PA T I E N TS U R G E R Y. N E T • 5 3 Mr. Ricks (shane@mscidaho.com) is the administrator of the Millennium Surgery Center in Meridian, Idaho.

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