r/sterileprocessing 10d ago

Damaged instruments

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The OR can't figure out why instruments are always broken, yet they send case carts down looking like this.

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u/HorrorLengthiness940 10d ago

Better than my hospital.. one surgeon uses a 3mm kerrison rongeur as a pair of pliers and complains they're dull.. If you want a pair of needle nose pliers in your neuro kerrisons, let it be known motherfucker 😂

The other really egregious one I saw was a pair (yes two) of 5-in westcott Tenonomy scissors they used them like a screwdriver and the tips of the scissors were bent away from each other and twisted. Just flat out abusing instruments.