Savory Dilators Traceability and Storage

Specialties Gastroenterology

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Would like to know how your Endoscopy Lab stores their Savory Dilators. Recent Joint Commission Surveys have cited facilities for storing them flat in the carrying case. Reason: 1. Should hang vertical to allow draining/drying of wire channel 2. Lack of sanitization of the carrying case. Are any of your labs storing vertically? If so, by what means? Also, traceability: Do you keep a reprocessing tag on each dilator and place in the patient record like your endoscopes? Need ideas/suggestions! Thanks for your responses!!!!

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Storage in a flat carrying case is so 1990's. Nowadays, Savary Guilliard Dilators has to be reprocessed and tagged each and the guide wires too. A traceability sticker has to be placed in patient's record. Otherwise, there is an infection control policy breach.

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Thanks so much for your response! Do you store your Savory Dilators vertically? Possibly in something like this? Dilator Storage - Swinson Medical

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Hi, sorry for the veeeeery late reply. Yes we do store it vertically. It's similar to the link that you sent.

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Thank you!!

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