Cheron Rojo, BS, FCS, CHL, CIS, CER, CFER, CRCST, senior clinical education specialist at Healthmark Industries, delves into the field of insulated medical devices, a topic that is often overshadowed by the focus on laparoscopic tools. These seemingly innocuous instruments have been linked to patient burns and staff-related fires, creating a significant but often unspoken problem.By discussing his research with him Infection Control Todayhe hopes to bring awareness to this rarely talked about issue.
“This presentation is about my 2021 to 2022 year. It’s a more robust (one-year) study, my first study was in 2019, which was because my daughter got sick and ended up in There were a lot of Abby’s born in 2020. The 2019 study lasted about 8 months due to COVID-19. Then I knew I wanted to do something more powerful and that’s what this talk is about. In a nutshell, that’s it ; This is just a larger study. The study itself is more about insulated equipment. A lot of people are looking at more than just laparoscopic surgery. It involves insulated bipoles, forceps, cables, and insulated wires, all of those items Related to internal or external burns to patients. Fires and burns have occurred to staff, from surgeons to scrub technicians. So, to me, this is a very, very big question. This study is unbiased and it means It makes people aware that the problem still exists. “It’s just that a lot of individuals or institutions don’t talk about it because they settle it out of court. “
Rojo hopes the audience will learn something from his speech. “I don’t want to scare them. But at the same time, I think Scare them. I hope their message is to be able to go back to their home countries and activate their facilities because a lot of these people are coming from a facility or their healthcare system to perform the audit tools I mentioned at the end. I don’t just go in and show them numbers. I don’t just scare them with pictures, obviously with a lot of pictures. But I give them a list so they can go back and ask, look, do you have this? Do you have this? If you have this, are your employees using it correctly? Do they even know how to identify this specific damage? I show them different damage scenarios and tell them what the damage is, where it is, and why it might have happened. So, I want to leave them with an audit tool. “
(Quotes have been edited for clarity. Watch the video above for the full interview)