Out now :
Volume 13 of our series of booklets “International FORUM Medical Devices & Processes” with this year’s topic "Betreiber aufgepasst – was können wir delegieren? (Operators watch out: What can we delegate?)" (only in German).
The issue will distributed as a supplement to the current issue of ZENTRALSTERILISATION just in time for MEDICA, and will be available at the congress stands of HAWO, Miele and Karl Storz Endoskope.
We would like to thank all authors for their contribution, without which a publication like this would not be possible to compile.
The print version can be obtained from us (contact form), download
... here.
In Preparation :
Volume 14, FORUM 2012, with the topic "Qualitätsleitfaden Aufbereitung MP" , in which the formalism of "Verification -> Validation -> QM -> Certification -> Accreditation" shall be put up for discussion. Also we offer manufacturers a platform for a contentual presentation of innovative products. ... show preview for Volume 14 "FORUM 2012"
„Betreiber aufgepasst... unsere Erfahrungen mit Begehungen seit 2003“:
(Operators watch out: Our experiences with inspections since 2003)
Our contribution to the DGSV’s Annual Congress 2011 (3rd -5th Oct. 2011) in Fulda, Germany.
Load the presentation in German here.
Surgical Instruments Workgroup Berlin informs:
Operators watch out! ...
on the shutdown of several german hospital CSSDs (in Kassel, Fulda, Munich):
Background: Article from Hessischer Rundfunk (in German).
OP mit schmutzigem Besteck keine Straftat Etappensieg für das Klinikum Fulda: Die Staatsanwaltschaft hat ihre Ermittlungen wegen Hygiene-Mängeln bei Operationen teilweise eingestellt. Der Anfangsverdacht auf fahrlässige Körperverletzung habe sich nicht bestätigt.
... read more (only in German)
Comment:
What we need urgently right now are clear-cut criteria for shutdowns of central sterile supply departments. The current practice of shutdowns by the regional control authorities appears rather arbitrary in some respects and raises questions on the effects: insecurity of patients, considerable costs for hospital and society and hard-to-assess achievements in respect to hygiene. There is reason to fear that a climate of denunciation may prevail.
Sincerely, Dr. Thomas W. Fengler
CLEANICAL® own Antje Hartwig, surveyor for the processing of medical devices, has been appointed to the scientific board of “ASEPTICA“.
... announcement fom “aseptica“ 01-2011 ... here
Dia-Show-video of the workshop “FORUM on tour“ from the hospital Dalinde,
Acapulco - Mexico, 12/2010.
... here
“Life is a journey not a destination“
Our dear friend, teammate and co-founder of Surgical Instuments Workgroup Berlin
Helmut Pahlke has passed away on 9/30/2010
1)
obituary of “Central Sterilisation“ (Nr.5 - 2010) and “aseptica“
2)
obituary of newspaper “Der Tagesspiegel“ (12/02/2010)
Dr. med. Dipl.-engineer Th. W. Fengler has been appointed into the advisory board of “Central Sterilisation“
- Article from the current journal 4/2010 please
read here.
There is still no independent course of studies on “Processing and handling of medical devices“, state recognized qualification guarantees that the staff of the central sterile supply departments (CSSD) of the 2000 german hospitals possess a comparable level of education.
Every day innumerable instruments are disassembled, cleaned, disinfected, examined and maintained, packed including accessories and subjected to the sterilisation process.
Two current reports on the problem, in view of recent events (in German):
