Orthopaedic Screw banks or caddies

[Louise Christine Grant]

Dear John,
I would also be interested to hear what other hospitals are doing with their screw banks.
I have similar concerns about what damage continual resterilisations does to the screws and plates and the lack of traceability that results.
Another concern of mine is how clean are these screw containers? They are usually not unassembled when they are put through the washer disinfectors.

With screw breakages, there is also the skill of the person driving the screw.

From my many years of experience as a perioperative nurse, on most occasions the surgeon and or trainee know what size screw they want with sufficient timing for the circulating nurse to open a sterile screw and not delay the surgical procedure at all.

Regards

Louise Grant PhD Cand, MCl Sc(Periop)
Project Consultant Reprocessing Compliance
Top End Health Service | Northern Territory Government
Room 221, Building 4, Royal Darwin Hospital,
Rocklands Drive, Tiwi NT 0810 | PO Box 41326 Casuarina NT 0811
t 08 8944 8005 | m 0404 491 183 | e Louise.Grant@nt.gov.au | http://www.health.nt.gov.au

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