What is your suction hiding from you
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Single Use Surgical Ltd 3 Spring Hill Road Park Springs Barnsley S72 7BQ UK Telephone +44 (0)1226 732 333 Facsimile +44 (0)1226 785 386 Email info@susl.co.uk Website www.susl.co.uk What is your suction hiding from you? Reusing surgical instruments poses an increasing risk of patient to patient cross-infection, as instruments with fine lumens remain too difficult to clean and minimally invasive procedures become more common. In 2015, a multi-centre Lumen Inspection Survey inspected instruments from 71 hospitals in the US and revealed that 70% of instruments were classified as ‘dirty’, with suction tubes being one of the highest percentage instrument categories to fail inspection1. Among the foreign matter found on the instruments was blood, bone, brush fibres and human hair. Single Use Surgical were established in 2001 as a direct response to UK hospitals concerns over the cleaning practises involving fine lumen instruments, and how it posed a high risk of patient to patient cross contamination. Today the company provide a range of single use solutions worldwide For more information visit www.susl.co.uk Stephenson, K., ‘The Value of Lumen Inspection’, Vendor Vantage, 2015, P. 76-78 Registered in England number 43