The RFiD Discovery surgical kitting solution helps to centralise and streamline the management of surgery supplies in large acute hospitals
Using passive RFID labels on all surgery consumables means that all items used for surgeries can be tracked, enabling hospitals to accurately record usage for each procedure and ensure reliable replenishment of required inventory.
Traditionally clinical staff in the local surgical areas prepare all inventory required for the next day’s procedures. Centralizing this process using the surgical kitting solution means that clinical staff are freed up to spend more time on patient care.
The knowledge of clinical staff about the required consumables for specific types of procedures is captured on the system in the form of pick-lists. For each type of surgery, central staff download the relevant list to a handheld scanning device which indicates which location in the central store each item can be picked from. Items are then scanned and added to a tote box specific for each patient, which is sealed and delivered to the local surgical area.
In order to record the use of consumables from local surgery stock, clinical staff simply add the empty wrappers of any inventory used to the tote box. Post procedure the tote box is received back in the stores where the RFID labels on these wrappers are then scanned by the central inventory team. This means all consumables used can be accounted for, those unused replaced and an accurate overall material cost of a procedure is recorded and stock correctly replenished.
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