RFID technology helps intelligent management of disinfection of surgical instruments in hospitals

The operating room of a Hospital is one of the busiest and most important departments. Every operation affects the hearts of many medical staff and patients. As the main Tools of surgery, surgical instruments are obviously very important. Any errors during surgery may cause immeasurable losses. The intelligent management of surgical instruments will bring great convenience. RFID radio frequency identification technology is used for multi-tag and rapid identification and collection capabilities, thus realizing intelligent management of surgical instruments.

Most medical institutions have set up instrument sterilization service centers or supply departments to sterilize medical instruments, pack surgical instruments, prepare equipment needed for surgery, manage and rent medical equipment, and obtain or purchase instruments and implants. But the most important task of these service departments is infection prevention and control. The supply department follows strict procedures to ensure that all medical supplies are thoroughly sterilized and disinfected before surgery.

Also ensuring the correct disinfection of trays and wash baskets is an important task for these departments. Improper sterilization of trays and washbasins is generally considered a serious medical malpractice, and the hospital will bear significant legal risks. Proper sterilization of trays reduces the risk of infection for patients and reduces liability risk for hospital surgical teams.

RFID can help hospitals with process management very well. By installing electronic tags on each device, it provides a real-time, accurate and automated electronic information recording method. RFID does not require the hospital to introduce a new process system. It can seamlessly connect with the hospital's existing system processes and provide relevant document information for each link in the process. The entire system can also automatically update when equipment is serviced or maintained.

RFID technology realizes the main functions:

1. In the pre-operative sterilization and supply department, surgical instrument cleaning requires multiple procedures. Omission of procedures may lead to potential safety hazards. Supervision measures that incorporate RFID automatic identification technology can effectively solve this problem;

2. Surgical instrument packaging management and verification, the packaging and sorting of surgical instruments can use RFID Readers to detect possible omissions during the packaging process;

3. Operating room instrument management. Management during the operation mainly includes preoperative verification, postoperative inventory, and doctor confirmation. Each link requires accurate identification to avoid serious consequences caused by missing surgical instruments in the patient's body;

4. Comprehensive information management, statistical query, and reporting system.

Managing rented equipment is also very troublesome. The hospital will rent some medical equipment and instruments that it does not intend to purchase for the time being. The hospital supply department also needs to clean and disinfect these equipment and identify them to ensure that they are well maintained and preserved. Therefore, using RFID for these devices can also increase utilization and improve management efficiency.

Preventing surgical infections is of great concern to all medical institutions. The hospital supply department can indeed reduce and avoid the occurrence of infections through automated disinfection management processes. All surgical instruments are strictly controlled and disinfected and dried to ensure proper storage and use of surgical instruments. . RFID can realize automated and intelligent management of the entire disinfection process. After the hospital adopts RFID to fully manage surgical instruments, it only needs to use the RFID electronic tag reader to read all the instruments within the range within a few seconds. Through the automatically collected These data can be used to analyze blind spots and deficiencies in the management process, forming a strong basis for quality improvement and certification.