Unqualified Medical Appliance Packs Checked Before Sterilization:Causes and Countermeasures / 中华医院感染学杂志

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE To analyze the causes of unqualified medical appliance packs before sterilization and to find countermeasures in order to assure their quality,and to avoid emergence of hospital infection and medical tangles. METHODS Totally 320 packs were checked before sterilization from supply room and clinical departments from Jun 1,2004 to Mar 30,2005. RESULTS The rate of unqualified packs checked before sterilization was 14.12% including 460 medical apparatuses unqualified(21.70%). CONCLUSIONS To avoid the emergence of hospital infection and medical tangles,we should strengthen the work of supply room to realize the centralization of sterilization and supply,and make much of personnel′s professional training,normalize job′s process and quality criterion,and intensify professional and systematizing management of medical appliance purged and packed.