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Whenever I need to purchase a lot of items from the grocery store,
I make a list. Rest assured, if I try to remember everything, I will forget a couple of items. Sometimes, it's a minor item that I can do without, but most times it's the very item I made the trip for in the first place.
It's one thing to forget about a small item or two at the grocery
store, but keeping track of surgical instruments during transportation is imperative. Count Sheets are instrumental to the practice of knowing exactly what instruments are going into an Operating Room. While this is a pretty standard practice, what you do
with them seems to vary. Many departments include the count sheet inside of the instrument tray. The issue is still up for debate, but many professionals feel that count sheets have no place inside containers or wrapped instrument sets. The concern is that
the ink can leak, and could be transferred onto the instruments, posing a threat to patient safety if toxicity levels are high enough. Another possible issue, you can lose the count sheet all together since it's not secured.
A solution to both of these issues is using a count sheet holder.
Securing the count sheet on the outside of the instrument tray keeps the ink away from the surgical instruments and will also allow you to secure the count sheet without having to worry about losing it. Make sure you are printing the count sheet and use count
sheet holders with all instrument tray sets.
Matthew Smith
Senior Manager of Marketing
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