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trainer for maintenance of surgical instruments

By admin | December 16, 2008

Hello,
I need to locate an expert who can provide training as a volunteer for  a medical training program in Trujillo, Peru in late February. This person should speak some Spanish, be comfortable with hands-on training a group of nurses,  and be familiar with cleaning, sharpening, straightening, lubricating and sterilizing surgical stainless steel instruments, with [...]

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better specifications for surgical instruments

By admin | July 3, 2008

Dear Ronald,

Please let me know if the following discussion and specifications help you

A medical device with “acceptable quality” is not a subjective decision but
it must conform with international standards. For surgical instruments,
they must conform with product standards and quality management standards.

ISO TC170 is responsible for product standards for surgical instruments
(currently there are 6 standards):

<http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnu
mber=13745> [...]

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better specifications for surgical instruments

By admin | July 3, 2008

Thank you all so far.

For the case someone is interested and not aware of, I enclose a manual for
maintenance and care for all kind of instruments – not only micro-surgical –
with which we are working since long-time.

Of course you are right that the proper maintenance is essential.

But this is exactly one of the critical points! [...]

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Better specifications for surgical instruments

By admin | July 3, 2008

Dear Ronald,

As we know, “quality” has many meanings and I believe that the customer’s
objectives should be included in the consideration.

The needs for certain design and finish on surgical instruments actually
depend on client training, practice, frequency of use, preference…etc which
may differ among the different specialties even within the same hospital.
Surely prices between Aesculap and Others produced [...]

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Better specifications for surgical instruments

By admin | July 3, 2008

Two short practical comments:

Try asking the “high quality manufacturers” what in their opinion technically makes the difference.They may very well know and it is in their interest to tell you….and it is your responsability to check the answer of course.

Almost all manufacturers are 13485 compliant and the standard contains no product specific requirements.

Try ICS code [...]

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better specifications for surgical instruments

By admin | July 3, 2008

High quality, of course, means high costs. A cataract surgical set made in India of acceptable
quality can cost about USD $250 whereas one made in Germany of very high quality can cost
over USD $7000.

A hospital needs to decide what is acceptable quality based on their budget constraints and
their ability to properly care for and maintain [...]

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Better specifications for surgical instruments

By admin | June 28, 2008

Dear Colleagues,

I am facing the following problem very frequently, and just now again:

“satisfactory definition of quality for surgical instruments in the
technical specification”

You all know that there is a huge range of real quality, for example between
instruments from German productions (e.g. Aesculap) and Indian or Russian
productions (just to give one example)

There are a lot of [...]

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