Surgical Instrument Cleaning and Sterilization: Essential for a Safe Medical Facility
The importance of proper surgical instrument cleaning and sterilization cannot be under estimated. Every year, millions of patients go in and out of doctors’ offices, dentists’ offices and hospitals nationwide and all of them depend on the medical facility to be safe. Not having a proper surgical instrument cleaning and 
sterilization process puts all of those patients at risk for cross contamination, infection, disease and possibly death. If a medical facility is using manual scrubbing as their surgical instrument cleaning and sterilization regime, they could not only potentially endanger their patients but also their staff.
Ultra Clean Systems manufactures ultrasonic cleaning machines engineered to be the best and safest surgical instrument cleaning equipment available. Our surgical instrument cleaning systems can protect your facility from unnecessary costs by preventing illness from spreading to your patients and employees.
Without proper decontamination equipment and practices, a medical facility may rely on an employee, such as a sterile processor, to clean surgical instruments by hand. There are associated risks from having a sterile processor handle the surgical instrument cleaning. These risks include:
- The sterile processor contracting an illness through airborne microorganisms while manually scrubbing a surgical instrument
- The sterile processor contracting a disease if the bacteria splashes or splatters from a surgical instrument
- The sterile processor contracting an illness if they are punctured by an infected surgical instrument
- A cross contamination of viruses and bacteria between patients if debris is left on an inadequately cleaned surgical instrument
Manually scrubbing a surgical instrument to decontaminate could also damage the instrument. The abrasiveness could destroy the layer that protects the surgical instrument from corrosion and rusting. The scrubbing could also bend, break and dull the blade of a surgical instrument. Our ultrasonic cleaning systems avoid these hazards and allow for the easier cleaning of cannulated instruments. The combination of irrigation, enzymatic detergents and ultrasonics helps to delicately remove any organic residue. The life of the surgical instrument is lengthened when it doesn’t have to be manually scrubbed.
Fatigue, time constraints, and inexperience could lead to incorrectly sterilized instruments. These conditions could impact the effectiveness of the cleaning and sterilization processes. Contact Ultra Clean Systems today at 1-877-935-6624 for information on our surgical instrument cleaning systems.
