Top: Steve Stout, OR business manager, and his staff reorganized the $1.5 million inventory of orthopedic plates and screws. Bottom: Have-available bins provide for just-in-case supplies. Aperfect OR inventory—that's the goal of the OR business management staff at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colo. They've come a long way. In the past, supplies were kept in the OR. Nurses picked their own cases and "wanted everything at the point…
Sterile Processing Department (SPD) managers and technicians know a thing…
Immediate use steam sterilization (IUSS, a standard steam sterilization cycle…
Many healthcare professionals are aware of single-use device reprocessing and…