Tray optimization study

Duke Health shows near-perfect agreement between automated and manual tracking with Mente technology

Background

Automated Tracking VS Manual Counting

Method

Automated RFID tracking and manual counting was performed concurrently
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Over 15 Breast Surgeries, 10 Carpometacarpal (CMC) Arthroplasties, and 4 Craniotomies.

Results

Substantial agreement between automated tracking and manual counting.
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Over 50% of instruments were removed in breast and orthopedic surgery
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Eliminated instruments were not needed in additional cases. Setup time in breast surgery decreased from 23 minutes to 17 minutes..

Conclusion

An automated RFID system for recording surgical instrument use for three types of surgery to identify unused instruments.

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Measuring intraoperative surgical instrument use with radio-frequency identification

Hill I, Olivere L, Helmkamp J, Le E, Hill W, Wahlstedt J, Khoury P, Gloria J, Richard MJ, Rosenberger LH, Codd PJ.Measuring intraoperative surgical instrument use with radio-frequency identification. JAMIA Open. 2022 Jan 19;5(1):ooac003. doi: 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooac003. PMID: 35156004; PMCID: PMC8827029.

Savings Estimator

Increased Efficiency

Sterile Processing Costs
per instrument
$
Operating Room Costs
per minute
$
Instrument Depreciation
per instrument
$
Estimated Instruments Removed
55

Increased Efficiency

Instrument Depreciation
$5,520
Sterile Processing
$13,414
Reduction in Setup Time
$12,960
Total Annual Savings
$31,894

Savings estimation for discussion purposes only. Actual savings may vary. Please contact us to refine the estimate.

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