SPD is the service arm of the hospital, serving the OR and other critical departments in the health care facility. SPD is responsible for thorough decontamination, packaging, inspection, sterilization and transport to their customers in the OR, which include patients who trust their well being to staff processing the necessary equipment and devices .Just image the time and effort required to obtain the necessary instructions for processing.  Case Medical has partnered with OneSource to provide instant information about devices with a simple click of a button, using CaseTrak360 software.

Surgery is complex and risky of course. And, surgical  procedures have increased yearly many going to ambulatory surgery centers. In 2010, 48.3 million surgical and nonsurgical procedures were performed during 28.6 million ambulatory surgery visits to hospitals and ASCs combined. Growth in procedure-based work in neurosurgery is predicted to be 28% by 2020. The amount of procedure-based work in general surgery is expected to grow by 31% by 2020.

With the increased volume of cases and the variety of devices and the complex steps required to process these, one wonders how SPD functions with the added volume of cases and demands for increased productivity and turnaround. This can be  a very tedious process that frustrates staff, creates stress, and slows down the workflow.

Do your SPD techs get slowed down because they need to look up set information, IFUs and instructions in text books and reference guides?

CaseTrak360 solves this problem by bringing information about a set/item right to their computer screen. CaseTrak360 links instrumentation and devices back to an IFU or a listing on OneSource, which is natively integrated into CaseTrak360.