Use a Quick Rinse Automated Instrument Rinse System for Your Phaco Handpiece Sterilization

Today’s medical professionals use technology that keeps patients happy, healthy, and safe. This includes tools like phaco handpieces. These pieces are expensive, and certainly an investment in your patient’s health. You want the best, top-quality medical tools and you don’t want to have to pay to replace them prematurely. Many private and public clinics, medical companies, and hospitals are successfully able to use the same phaco handpieces for years, because they keep up with the cleaning.

But stop and think about it… you are using the same piece on patients again and again and again. The last thing you want is for a patient to get sick, which is not only possible but actually likely if you don’t properly clean all of your devices. This is why sterilization is so important. The purpose of sterilization is to prevent transmission of microbes to patients. These standard precautions should be used in interaction with all patients because it is unknown whether any particular patient may be the reservoir of transmissible bacteria, viruses, or other microbes.

Standard precautions that absolutely must be followed include hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene and cough etiquette, safe injection practices, and the proper disposal of needles and scalpels. In addition to these, the sterilization of your handpieces are necessary as well. Cleaning your hands is vital, but it won’t keep your patients healthy if your hands are clean and the piece you’re using on them is not!

This is where handpiece sterilization comes in. Sterilization is the killing or removal of all microorganisms, including bacterial spores. Surgical instruments, like your phaco handpiece, must be cleaned thoroughly and completely, so there is no doubt as to whether it is totally sterile or not. If this sounds labor intensive and time consuming, you are not wrong.

That is why many in your position are opting for a machine to do it for them, like the QuickRinse® Instrument Rinse System. This Optisurgical Quick Rinse is used to rinse instruments with lumen and tubing. Superior to a disposable syringe, the Optisurgical Quick Rinse provides consistent rinsing pressure and volume regardless of the operator, and eliminates hand fatigue issues associated with repetitive syringe use. Using this device frees up your hands to perform other tasks, greatly improving the speed and efficiency of your reprocessing department. Of course, it also means your handpieces are totally cleaned each and every time.

As a medical professional, you already know that many types of deadly bacteria can grow on unsterilized medical equipment. Now, you never have to worry about whether they’re clean. If you are ignoring the proper cleaning techniques needed, you are putting your patients’ lives at risk. If a deadly disease were to somehow gain entry into a patient’s body, it could kill them shockingly quickly. This mistake happens in an instant, and by the time such serious consequences are known, it is too late to take back. Is it time to reconsider your cleaning routine?