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Surgical Asset Management
Are you aware of all cost traps in your hospital?
Imagine if your sterile goods management ran smoothly, surgical assets were in good condition, surgical sets were loaded with the correct number of instruments and reprocessed according to high quality standards, and therefore suitable for use in the operating theatre for treating patients. Imagine if you had cost transparency throughout the whole reprocessing cycle of the most valuable mobile asset in your hospital – the surgical instruments. This could help reduce complaints or possible extra costs for delays and interrupted surgeries, less frustration or stressed staff and surgeons and the there would be a reduced amount of prolonging hospitalisations because of SSIs either.
Surgical sets are often overloaded however they can be optimised and adapted for surgical procedures, bringing wide ranging benefits for the operating theatre and CSSD. [11] Our Set Consulting Team found that, on average, reductions of 22% for existing set structures is possible. [10] Considering that the reprocessing costs for one instrument amounts to approximately $0.51 [2a] we calculated that the reduction of a 90 piece set to 70 instruments (by 22%) can save up to $408,000 per year. [10]
[1] Wong J, Khu KJ, Kaderali Z, et al. Delays in the operating room: signs of an imperfect system. Can J Surg 2010;53(3):189-95.
[1a] ABHI 2020. Quality, Safety and Value: The role of surgical instruments. https://www.abhi.org.uk/media/2680/abhi-the-role-of-surgical-instruments.pdf.
[2] Stockert EW, Langerman A. Assessing the magnitude and costs of intraoperative inefficiencies attributable to surgical instrument trays. J Am Coll Surg 2014;219(4):646-55.
[2a] Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells Trust, FOI, 2019, https://www.mtw.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Decontamination-and-sterilisation-service.-300719.pdf#:~:text=It%20can%20also%20vary%20depending%20on%20quantity%20required,anywhere%20between%20%C2%A32500-%C2%A35000%20or%20more%20for%20specialist%20surgery
[3] Wales Audit Office, 2016, https://www.wao.gov.uk/sites/default/files/operating-theatres-2016-eng_6.pdf
[4] Anazor F,. Sibanda V., Altaf K., Sowner L., Relwany J., The Impact of Sterile Instrument Set Wrapping Defects on Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery Theatre List, 2022. The Impact of Sterile Instrument Set Wrapping Defects on Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery Theatre Lists - PubMed (nih.gov)
[5) Anderson D.J., et al. Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2008;29:51.
[6] Wick E.C., Shore A.D., Hirose K., et al. Readmission rates and cost following colorectal surgery. Dis Colon Rectum 2011;54(12):1475-79.
[7] Dancer SJ, Stewart M, Coulombe C, et al. Surgical site infections linked to contaminated surgical instruments. J Hosp Infect 2012;81(4):231-38.
[8] ECRI. Bioburden on Surgical Instruments: Patient Safety Advisory. Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting Sytem 2006(3).
[9] Tanner J., Khan D., Aplin C., Ball J., Thomas M., Bankart J. Post-discharge surveillance to identify colorectal surgical site infection rates and related costs. J Hosp Infect. 2009; 72: 243-250. https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(17)30135-4/fulltext
[10] Aesculap statistics based on 345.890 analyzed instruments in 135 different hospital.
[11] Yoon S, Zygourakis CC, Seaman J, et al. Implementation and Impact of a Hospital-Wide Instrument Set Review: Early Experiences at a Multisite Tertiary Care Academic Institution. Am J Med Qual 2019;34(1):67-73.
[12] Stockert EW, Langerman A. Assessing the magnitude and costs of intraoperative inefficiencies attributable to surgical instrument trays. J Am Coll Surg 2014;219(4):646-55.
[13] Aesculap. Sterilization Validation – STERILCONTAINER with Primeline Lids.
[14] Practice Greenhealth. Greening the OR: Reusable Hard Cases for Surgical Instrumentation 2013.
[15] Amann B, Appel T, Bertram M, et al. Corrosion: an underestimated risk. Zentralsterilisation 2019(5):320-23.
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