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Safety Transfer Trays
The Bloodborne Pathogen Standard states that facilities should use proper work practices to help eliminate needlesticks and other sharps injuries.  A "No-hands" procedure or "neutral zone" helps to eliminate hand-to-hand instrument passing in the operating room.  One method of accomplishing this neutral zone is through the use of safety transfer trays.  A clinician will place a sharps instrument into the tray and the tray is passed or placed into a neutral zone rather than the sharps instrument being passed.
 

Hands-Free Transfer Trays

 

 

Hands-Free Transfer Trays

Protect your staff from sharp injuries by establishing a neutral or safe zone within the sterile field where sharps and only sharps are placed one at a time for retrieval.

Z-Tray™ - Disposable tray provides for "hands-free" transfer of sharps. Stretch-A-Tray™ Extendable Hands Free Transfer Tray For Those Longer Scalpel Handles and Instruments.

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Safety Compliance Kit

 

 

The Safety Compliance kit is designed to provide you with the tools to work safer and to help you meet AORN and AST standards.

The kit includes a puncture-resistant  container with a lid. During the case the lid of the container can be used as a hands-free transfer method as sharps are passed between surgeon and staff. 

For cases where your work area is tilted such as back surgeries and cases that position the patient in leg fins such as GYN laparoscopic cases and lower anterior bowel resections, the base of the container provides you with a neutral zone that can be placed at a slight slant. The sides of the tray contain and restrict movement of your surgery tools.

On your back table the container can be used as a safe zone for your longer sharps, such as spinal needles, trocars and Ortho pins.  Having sharps contained in a container that can be used for transport of sharps after the case means one less time sharps have to be picked up and moved by hand this means one less chance for needle sticks.

At the end of the case the container along with the lid provides a safe method for transporting your needle counter and unused suture, along with other sharps from your field to the secondary container. Unlike the commonly used boxed style needle counters, the DC Surgical Solutions Sharps Compliance Kit has no seam on the side. Because of this it meets OSHA standards for transporting sharps, which states puncture-resistant containers should be leak-proof and seamless on the bottom and sides of the container.

The Suture organizer provides you with a method to divide your suture packets, speeding up reaction time and counts.

The needle counter/ scalpel holder meets all AORN and AST standards while talking up less space on the mayo stand and back table.  The needle counter was designed with no lid.  This takes away the dangerous practice of taking lids off for use during the case and then attempting to replace the lid after it is full of used sutures and blades. It also encourages surgical personal to keep their eyes on the needle counter as they are handling it.

 

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