Tip protectors for surgical instruments

To protect valuable medical equipment its best to use tip protectors, scopes and forceps from being scratched. Many times the damage to an instrument from not using tip protectors is not repairable, This is why you will have to replace the surgical instruments. There's 2 different types of vent protectors vented (with holes) and non-vented (without holes). most folks prefer to use vented tip protectors because they are more safer to use and easier to remove from the medical instrument, which reduces possible finger punctures. The other advantage of the vented tip protector is the improved exposure of the sterilant to the devices surface.

When to use tip protectors: - On the tips of scissors - Tips of sharp instruments - Skin hooks - Distal tip on rigid scopes - Cutting edges of osteotomes Surgical Instrument Protection Cases: There are multiple benefits for having metal/sterilization cases for specific instruments: - Keeps high demand surgery equipment organized - Minizes the possiblity of loosing a certain sized medical instrument - Protects the cutting edges of the instruments - Decreases the number of times your surgical instruments need to be sharpened - Gives an organized fashion in the sterile field

Medical instrument Tape Marking Application 1) Clean fingers with alcohol to remove grease, oil and dirt 2) Use rubbing alcohol on rubbing tape to get rid of and excess lubricant 3) Tape length should be only 1 - 1 ½ times around and applied with firm tension 4) After tape is applied on the autoclave instruments. The heat will assist with the bonding of the tape. 5) Tape the shanks of all surgical instruments, Avoid instruments rings. It wont be a big deal if you wrap your tape two times around the closing of the tips of scissors.