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The Life of a Scope
Sam Harrison, a Senior Clinical Educator at Censis Technologies, discussed the lifecycle of a scope and how Censis's tools, ScopeTrac and CensiTrac, are essential. The tools aid in the deamination, cleaning, disinfecting, and storage tracking processes, and ensure compliance with regulations.
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Key takeaways
Scopes go through deamination before entering the OR.
CensiTrac tracks and documents cleaning and reprocessing procedures.
ScopeTrac helps comply with regulatory requirements and enhance tracking capabilities.
Sam Harrison, Senior Clinical Educator at Censis Technologies, provided Tyler Kern with an education in endoscopy when he guided him through the lifecycle of a scope and how Censis technologies’ ScopeTrac and CensiTrac play a vital role in the process.
Scopes first go through a deamination process before they enter the OR. CensiTrac then captures the cleaning and reprocessing procedures.
“When the tech checks that scope into the scope processing module, the instructions for use are displayed,” Harrison said. “Those instructions for use can be customized per the scope model, the manufacturer’s IFUs can be uploaded, or video can be uploaded to make it as easy as possible for the end-user.”
After the scope receives reprocessing, it goes to a cleaning room for disinfecting. This process requires tracking, which CensiTrac streamlines. Once disinfected and logged, a scope will go to a clean storage area, and CensiTrac will provide information on those scope’s storage location.
Once a scope enters the procedure room, CensiTrac’s case-tracking module can associate that scope to a patient through a case ID#. “In each area, CensiTrac is used to track and document every required process,” Harrison said.
ScopeTrac is another critical piece of the digital scope record process that makes it easy to comply with regulations.
“Having those processing steps there to help abide by the regulatory requirements is huge,” Harrison said. And, with the added functionality of video and image uploads, techs have additional tools and resources at their disposal to correctly identify and log in scopes.
While ScopeTrac with CensiTrac addresses all these needs, Harrison mentioned that there is now ScopeTrac Advanced, which provides additional solutions, such as OR scheduler interface capabilities.
Interested in learning more about Censis Technologies’ surgical asset management platform? Visit Censis.com.
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Surgical instrument management software for over 1,300 U.S. hospitals.
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