Transport of Sterle Instruments for 1000km round trip

[Kirrily Whitehead]

Hi everyone,

I am hoping that you might be able to provide some expert advice/references regarding how you monitor temperature and humidity storage environments when transporting sterile instruments to rural/remote sites where surgical procedures are performed.

Ideally it would be best to move to single use instruments, however according to theatre this is not possible for the types of procedures being undertaken (ophthalmology).

The distance is approx. 1000km round trip from Alice Springs to Tennant Creek (rtn) and would involve an air-conditioned car and aeroplane transport.

Any guidance on this would be most appreciative

Kind Regards

Kirrily

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Kirrily Whitehead – Infection Prevention and Control CNS
Infection Prevention and Control Unit | Central Australia Health Service

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[Michelle Bibby]

HI Kirrily

There are Data Loggers from a company in Victoria ( Global Temperature
Monitoring). http://www.globaltemp.com.au

They can be placed into our Sterile instrument Transport boxes and will take
data and log it during transport for as long as the data is required. When
the Sterile stock box is accepted by the clinic it will then take the
logger out of the box and the data is then transferred to a computer for
quick and easy interpretation of results. Obviously visual inspection of the
stock is paramount but with the logger combined we will have a much better
judgement of the conditions it has travelled in.

Thanks
Michelle

Michelle Bibby
Infection Prevention Australia
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Michelle@infectionprevention.com.au
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Kirrily Whitehead

Hi everyone,

I am hoping that you might be able to provide some expert advice/references
regarding how you monitor temperature and humidity storage environments when
transporting sterile instruments to rural/remote sites where surgical
procedures are performed.

Ideally it would be best to move to single use instruments, however
according to theatre this is not possible for the types of procedures being
undertaken (ophthalmology).

The distance is approx. 1000km round trip from Alice Springs to Tennant
Creek (rtn) and would involve an air-conditioned car and aeroplane
transport.

Any guidance on this would be most appreciative

Kind Regards

Kirrily

Kirrily Whitehead – Infection Prevention and Control CNSInfection
Prevention and Control Unit | Central Australia Health Service Northern
Territory GovernmentAlice Springs Hopsital, Gap Rd, Alice SpringsGPO Box
2234, Suburb, NT Postcodep … 08 89517736e … kirrily.whitehead@nt.gov.au
http://www.nt.gov.au/health

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