Sterilizer Transfer Cart
Location – Sterile Processing Department
Last year at Eagle Ridge Hospital, our surgeons performed 6,300 procedures in the operating rooms and day surgery suites. Each procedure requires the use of sterile surgical instruments and medical devices for safe contact with a patient’s sterile tissue and mucous membranes. A major risk in all such procedures is the introduction of pathogens that can lead to infection. Failure to properly disinfect or sterilize medical instruments and equipment carries the risk for person-to-person transmission such as Hep-C and transmission of environmental pathogens.
Eagle Ridge Hospital is in the business of healing and takes seriously its responsibility to ensure patient care takes place in a safe environment. We have an entire department of the hospital dedicated to the sterilization of instruments and equipment for use in our OR’s, ambulatory and emergency departments and any other place where equipment is exposed to human tissue.
Instruments and equipment arrive at the sterile processing department via a dedicated dumb waiter lift. Here they are sorted, placed in baskets which are stacked on transfer carts like the one shown and subjected to extremes of heat and pressure in steam autoclaves. Following drying and cooling, the instruments are packed in air sealed sterile packs for delivery to the department where they will be next used.
The sterile processing department constantly measures the operational effectiveness of the cleaning equipment and keeps careful records of every sterile cleaning transaction that takes place.
Sterilization is done carefully and consistently in order to protect the safety of our patients.
Cost $10,000
Note: The photograph is used for illustrative purposes only. The equipment purchased may be of a different make and model.
