---
title: '139. Functionality Testing Surgical Instruments and Devices'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/139-functionality-testing-surgical-instruments-and-devices'
show: 'Ask The Educator'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/ask-the-educator'
published: '2025-05-22'
audio: 'https://downloads.pod.co/b84ea58f-7a4f-4e87-91cb-49dd2dd7584b/861bb738-f46e-4b9e-867a-31f33546a299.mp3'
---

# 139. Functionality Testing Surgical Instruments and Devices

## Summary

Surgical instruments need to be clean, and this rightly becomes an area of focus for a lot of sterile processing departments. But we also need to make sure that instruments and devices used in the surgical case are functional, because non-functional devices can cause complications for patients. In this episode, we speak with the Packaging Princess, Malinda Elammari about instruments and testing protocols that are often overlooked.