TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS IN THE MODERN
CENTRAL STERILIZATION DEPARTMENT
The activities of modern hospitals are impossible without measures to prevent nosocomial infections. Means invested in hygienic, disinfection, sterilization systems and in the organization of sanitary and hygienic regime minimize the cost of treatment of nosocomial infections.
All patients of the medical institution, when receiving medical care, are at risk of contracting nosocomial infections. This risk occurs during any hygienic, diagnostic or medical procedure and increases with procedures using products that require disinfection or sterilization. To reduce the risk of infecting patients during their stay in a medical institution in the health care system of Ukraine, the regulated measures are aimed at the inadmissibility of ways of transmission of nosocomial infections. The staff of the medical institution is also subject to such a risk.
PURPOSE OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS:
The main purpose of the process is to streamline and regulate the separate in different departments of the institution work on the preparation of surgical instruments, surgical linen, dressings and flows of their movement in a single technology for the institution.
❖ Organization of a reliable modern system of sterilization of medical devices, which excludes instrumental factor of nosocomial infection transmission in a medical institution
❖ Providing the necessary conditions for the implementation of processes for preparation, sorting, washing and disinfection, sterilization of all products used in the medical and diagnostic process
PROCESS IMPLEMENTATION TASKS:
❖ Significant reduction in the number of complications of infectious etiology in patients
❖ Decreasing the cost of treating patients with complications
❖ Reducing the length of stay of the patient in bed
❖ Mechanization of labor-intensive processes when working with medical instruments
❖ Reducing the risk of occupational infectious diseases among CSSD staff
❖ Reducing the risks of allergies to personnel and the attached contingent by reducing use chemical disinfectants
❖ Improvement of hygienic conditions when working with tools
❖ Reduction of depreciation, wear and corrosion of tools
❖ Decreasing of costs for chemical disinfection of tools
❖ Increasing the volume of sterilization
❖ Economy of energy consumption and water
❖ Economy of sterilization time
MATERIAL PREPARATION AND PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDES:
❖ Subsystem for delivery of tools and materials to the CSSD and back to the department;
❖ Sub-sterilization cleaning and sorting subsystem;
❖ Subsystem for pre-sterilization automatic washing and disinfection (chemical and heat treatment) and quality control of the sink;
❖ Subsystem complete set, packing in packing paper / packing in containers;
❖ Subsystem of steam sterilization of instruments and materials and quality control of steam sterilization;
❖ Subsystem of low-temperature sterilization: plasma and / or steam-formaldehyde and quality control low-temperature sterilization.
