Sustainable Storage: Customized Solutions Designed with You In Mind

When it comes to sterile storage, disorganization can cost a lot of money in inefficiencies and case delays, especially when critical trays are hard to find. On this Beyond Clean Vendor Spotlight we talk with Phillip Van Gorp, President of Belintra Med IT and Storage Solutions about SMART-FOLD* STERISYSTEM®, a two-touch tray storage and transport solution, installed by Sterile Processing subject matter experts, that helps ensure sterility and provides a comprehensive, economical solution to common storage and transport challenges in Sterile Processing. If you’re searching for more space or your staff has a difficult time finding the trays needed by the Operating Room quickly, you’re going to want to tune into this interview! 

For a no-cost, on-site assessment and to learn more about the SMART-FOLD* STERISYSTEM®, visit Halyardhealth.com/storage-solutions

#VendorSpotlight #SterileStorage #SterileTransport #Sterilization #SterilityAssurance #Belintra #Halyard #Sterisystem #BlueWrap #SterileProcessing #BeyondClean #WeFightDirty #SPD #CS  #MDR  #SPS  #Surgery  

Surgical (Wedding Cake) Crashers: 7 Surprising Things Your SPD Should Not Be Sterilizing

In this episode of Articles On-The-Go, Hank Balch examines the menagerie of items being sterilized in surgical instrument trays and the reasons they should be left out. “Because they have no validation and no IFUs, they have no place in our sterilizers or on our sterile storage shelves, and definitely no place touching our patients.” Tune in to hear what surprising items show up on the list!

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Storage in Transition: Getting with you Need for your SPD

There’s no such thing as a static Sterile Storage area. Instruments are constantly moving in and moving out of the space. But that’s not the only kind of transition that happens with this critical inventory step. As we continue with Season 14 “Sterile Storage Wars,” we asked Juanita Burrell, Manager of Sterile Processing for Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago to join us for Episode 2 to discuss her story of transitioning from a cramped, challenged storage space to something of Sterile Processing dreams. Tune in to hear how she took her staff complaints and got the ear of her C-Suite to secure the support and investment necessary to take her storage to the next level. If you’re tired of hitting that proverbial brick wall for budget approvals and can’t take another day of working out of a storage “closet,” this is an episode worth forwarding to your favorite Director, VP, or CFO…!

Season 14 episodes are individually approved for 1 CE, so once you finish this interview, you can download your CE certificate immediately by passing the short quiz linked below each week.    For access to this CE quiz and over 230 other free CE credits, visit our CE Credit Hub: http://www.beyondclean.net/ce-credit-hub 

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Daily Practice With Manual Cleaning Tools | Expert Series On-The-Go 

On this week’s edition of the Beyond Clean Expert Series On-The-Go, tune in for the conversation entitled, “Daily Practice With Manual Cleaning Tools”. To hear more from this expert, follow us on Facebook and Linkedin, or subscribe to the Beyond Clean mailing list by visiting: https://educate.beyondclean.net/cleanfreaks or text BEYONDCLEAN to 22828

Do you know a #SterileProcessing expert who you’d love to hear from on our series? Or do you have a question for one of our current experts? Contact us at any time via email at: info@beyondclean.net

Until next time, keep fighting dirty!

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Designed to Kill: Keeping Safety at the Forefront of Peracetic Acid Use in Healthcare

What do flexible endoscopes and poultry have in common? I think many would be surprised to learn that the chemical used to make these two very different things safe is the commonality. Peracetic acid is used in hospitals for high-level disinfection and liquid chemical sterilization and in the foodservice industry to disinfect meat products. The difference is in the dose and on this Beyond Clean Vendor Spotlight we talk with David Hilliker, President and CEO of ChemDAQ Inc., about a chemical that is designed to kill and a brand new Peracetic Acid sensor, Steri-Trac 2 and 2+ that can help keep you safe. If you’ve been wondering how to  ensure worker safety around these toxic chemicals during medical device reprocessing, we’ve got the answer right here. Tune in now to find out! 

Learn more by visiting the ChemDAQ website, contacting them via e-mail and look for educational information and ask questions directly on LinkedIn and Facebook. 

#ChemicalSafety #ChemDAQ #OSHA #Safety #Risk #OffGassing #PeraceticAcid #PAA #SteriTrac #ChemicalMonitoring #VendorSpotlight #SterileProcessing #BeyondClean #WeFightDirty #SPD #CS #MDR #SPS #Surgery 

Sterile Processing Safety Shouldn’t Be a Near Miss: Why Incident Reporting of Sharps Matters to Everyone

In this episode of Articles On-The-Go, Hank Balch examines the often overlooked and undocumented occurrence of used sharps being sent to SPD–“If a hospital would document a near miss or injury to a doctor due to a disposable sharp that was not properly disposed of, the same should be true for a decontaminator… All members of the perioperative continuum of care, regardless of their title, deserve the same level of protection from and follow-up to the dangers of contaminated sharps.”

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