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Streamlined Surgical Trays Can Lead to Time, Money Savings
A surgery center found that efforts to streamline endocrine surgical trays led to faster tray preparation time and saved $31.62 per operation in reprocessing costs. By streamlining trays for a more exact fit with each procedure, the hospital projected a $28,000 annual savings in instrument reprocessing.
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Possible Flaws When Reprocessing Single-Use Items
The FDA allows surgery centers to reprocess some single-use items, following a standardized process. But there are some changing market pressures that shed doubt on whether this efficiency is feasible. There also have been problems when surgery centers perform procedures incorrectly.
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Investigators Find Connections Between Surgical Tool Design, Reuse, and Contamination
After surgical instruments undergo multiple uses and processing cycles, they can become contaminated while sustaining structural damage and collecting biofilm. Researchers found that after using and decontaminating surgical instruments 20 times, neither a manual nor automated cleaning process removed all the patient secretions.
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Reprocessing and Cleaning Breaches Haunt Some ORs
Patients have sued a Colorado hospital over infections that occurred after surgery. The lawsuit follows public notification of an earlier infection breach in surgical instrument sterilization and cleaning.
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Researchers: ASCs Should Avoid Post-Op Prophylactic Antibiotics
Each additional day of prophylactic antibiotic exposure after surgery can increase risk of adverse events, and it does not benefit infection prevention efforts, according to new research.
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Understanding the Medical Executive Committee
Rarely do individual hospital and surgery center personnel fully understand the role of this committee and the tremendous contribution it plays in safety and successful management of a quality facility. The committee makes recommendations on matters that affect quality of care and ensures the ethical conduct and competent performance on the part of all members of the medical staff.
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When Preventing a Cyberattack Fails, ASCs Need Recovery Plan
An important component of any cybersecurity plan is knowing what to do when cyberdisaster strikes. For ASCs, this means creating a disaster recovery continuity plan, which should be fluid and can be adjusted as needed.
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Too Small to Be Attacked by Cybercriminals? Not So Fast
Cybercriminals have attacked hundreds of healthcare organizations in recent years, including surgery centers. Cybersecurity plans are needed to educate staff on how to prevent attacks and what to do when one occurs. Surgery centers should conduct an annual vulnerability assessment to learn about weaknesses in the business that need correcting.
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Are Ambulatory Settings Suitable for All OSA Patient Surgeries?
Debates over which procedures and apnea patients are suitable for care in ASCs likely will continue. But recent research suggests that when patients are screened for obstructive sleep apnea and evidence-based guidelines are followed, they can be managed safely in an ambulatory setting.