Abstract
The management of sterilization of medical equipment is one of the most important factors in the safety management of surgical site disinfection. At our hospital, the sterilization management system ‘T-Racer (R)’ produced by the Central UNI Corporation, was introduced in August2004. This system traces all points of sterilization by using barcodes. This system also keeps a record of the use of sterilized medical equipment. During the two years that this system has been used at our hospital, we had 2 recalls. However, through a check of the record of the use of the sterilized medical equipment, we were able to re-sterilize the instruments in a short time. Additionally we developed an order entry system using the WEB-technology. To ensure an accurate data input into the system, the physician has to input the order directly himself. For the future we plan to continue to develop this new concept and improve it further to make it even more useful.
