Study shows XL transport container cuts costs significantly

InstruSafe containers by Summit Medical, an Innovia Medical Company, has added the InstruSafe XL Transport Container to its line and said in a press release yesterday that it is the first and only container of its size on the market designed to accommodate da Vinci¬ SP, Xi Scopes, EndoWris and other long laparoscopic surgical instruments. The XL Transport Container is used for protecting surgical instrumentation during transport from the sterile processing department to the operating room. Also, the company noted a new hospital study conducted at Altru Hospital in Grand Forks, ND, that using custom InstruSafe Instrument Protection Trays for cataract surgery resulted in a 34 percent savings in instrument repair and replacement costs. 

“Transporting surgical instruments safely and effectively is difficult. As healthcare facilities continue to invest in larger, delicate, and costly robotic instruments, we recognized the need to better protect them from the O.R. to sterile processing,” said Kevin McIntosh, president of Summit Medical. “With our new XL Transport Container, InstruSafe expands its commitment to raising quality standards for how delicate, expensive surgical instrumentation is organized, sterilized, transported, and stored.”

The company said it will demonstrate the new XL Transport Container during the AORN Global Surgical Conference & Expo in Nashville, Tenn., from April 6-11 at booth #1937) and the IAHCSMM Annual Conference in Anaheim, Calif., from April 28 through May 1 at booth #745.