All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1)
Variously known as decontamination units, CSSDs, HSDUs, SDUs, SSDs, SSDUs, SPDs, and/or SPUs, does your Trust have an in-house sterile services facility / department?
If no, please indicate this (return e-mail acceptable), and thank you for your time. No further answers are required.
If yes, please support with the following:
2)
What instrument tracking system does the sterile service use?
3)
What accreditation, if any, does the facility hold?
4)
Does the facility process / resupply single “supplementary items or devices” to customers/clinical users?
5)
If the facility supports/handles/supplies supplementary items, how is it defining them?
6)
Looking at the following options, which of the following methods are used by sterile services for the individual tracking and traceability of supplementary / single surgical instruments?
a.
1D / traditional barcode on a traceability tag, supplied with the instrument, and returned by the clinical user
b.
2D / QR-style barcode on a traceability tag, supplied with the instrument, and returned by the clinical user
c.
Coloured instrument tape applied to the device to indicate the owner / destination
d.
KeyDot or similar system which sticks a QR-like code on to the device
e.
Laser Marking of the device, with a 2D/ QR-style code
f.
Laser Marking of the device, with a 1D / traditional barcode
g.
Laser Marking with a name, number or other human-readable text
h.
Other (please specify)
7)
Does the instrument tracking system fully-integrate with their chosen single-instrument tracking approach, or does it require third-party software, hardware or other systems to function?
