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Processing of Reusable Surgical Textiles for Use in ANSI / AAMI ST65 Healthcare Facilities

Processing of Reusable Surgical Textiles for Use in ANSI / AAMI ST65 Healthcare Facilities

The ANSI / AAMI ST65 standard has been published by the American National Standards Institute, Medical Devices Development Association (ANSI / AAMI). This standard describes the requirements for the proper use, processing and preparation of reusable surgical textiles on-site or off-site for use in healthcare facilities.

Processing of Reusable Surgical Textiles for Use in ANSI / AAMI ST65 Healthcare Facilities

The practice recommended in this standard focuses specifically on:

  • Design criteria for functional workspaces
  • Employee qualifications, education, training, dress codes and other personnel issues
  • Receiving and transporting contaminated surgical textile products
  • Laundry considerations
  • Transport of both dirty and clean surgical textiles
  • Installation and maintenance of laundry equipment
  • Quality control
  • Regulatory considerations

Companies that provide clean and disinfected medical textiles and sterile or non-sterile, reusable surgical textiles to hospitals and healthcare institutions will increase their ability to offer reusable products that meet the performance requirements of end users. increases thanks to technological developments. The ANSI / AAMI ST65 standard includes criteria to help material managers, laundry managers, central service managers and other healthcare professionals implement effective quality assurance systems for the processing of reusable surgical textiles.

Briefly, the application recommended by the ANSI / AAMI ST65 standard contains instructions for the proper use, processing and preparation of reusable surgical textiles for use in healthcare institutions. This standard describes a quality assurance program for the processing of reusable surgical textiles. This standard applies to all facilities processing surgical textiles, whether in-house laundries or commercial facilities belonging to healthcare institutions.

Surgical textiles labeled for single use only should not be reprocessed or reused. Because in this case, it is not possible to maintain performance and security features. For the purposes of this application, the term healthcare facility refers to hospitals, nursing homes, long-term care facilities, independent surgical centers, clinics and dental treatment centers.

With the experience gained over many years, our organization also provides testing services for the processing of reusable surgical textiles for use in ANSI / AAMI ST65 Healthcare facilities within the framework of laboratory services of the materials with a trained and expert staff.

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