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Archive > April, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 4

Ideas That Work

Don't Gamble on Dirty Instruments

A Poker Chip in Every Dirty Instrument Tray
Find out how colored chips can help keep your instrument sets together.
When a case cart of dirty instruments comes into your sterile processing department, are sets organized together or is everything dumped in 1 bucket for your reprocessing techs to sort out? If it's the latter, here's how to help sterile processing find all the instruments in a set without having to look in tray after tray for that missing instrument. Buy a set of casino-quality poker chips and instruct your techs to place the same colored chip in each container as it arrives for reprocessing after a case. This way, after you've processed the trays, you greatly reduce the number of trays that you have to look through in the clean assembly area to find a missing item. We call it "chipping everything out" here at our hospital.

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