EFHSS  European Forum for Hospital Sterile Supply
Information on this page provided with kind permission of: mhp-verlag GmbH
Address:
65183 Wiesbaden
Germany
Internet: http://www.mhp-verlag.de
Email:

mhp publishing house

mhp stands for publications in medicine, hygiene and prevention. For more than 20 years, the mhp publishing house has devoted itself to supporting developments aiming for a better standard of hygiene and infection control in hospitals and other medical facilities.

Zentralsterilisation - Central Service

Sterile supply is a crucial component of all medical services. The journal Zentralsterilisation - Central Service aims to strengthen this prominent position. It has created a forum for all those who take an active role in everyday practice or research and development in this field. The well-balanced, reader-friendly content of the journal is composed of high-level scientific articles, reports from the field, recommendations of professional associations, relevant press items and news from the industry. In addition to promoting a multidisciplinary approach, Central Service facilitates international cooperation for a uniformly high standard in sterile supply by publishing all articles in both German and English.

From the very beginning, Central Service had served as the official publication of the European Society for Hospital Sterile Supply (ESH) and will in future be the publication of the newly founded International Federation of Sterile Supply (IFSS). Furthermore, upon its foundation in 1996, the German Society for Sterile Supply (DGSV) chose Central Service as its official journal.

In the last ten years, Central Service has become an integral part of national and international reference sources for questions concerning medical, technical and economic aspects of sterile supply. In this function it has greatly contributed to quality assurance in the prevention of nosocomial infections.


Zentralsterilisation - Central Service
Issue 3/00
 
EDITORIAL
 
What makes a successful CS department?
 
NEWS UPDATE
 
What's New in Standardisation: Terms and Definitions
Infections from Inadequately Reprocessed Endoscopes
MedInform Seminar: Reprocessing Medical Single-Use Devices
Consensus Proposal: Reuse of Single-Use Medical Devices
CPT, ETS & ISO - Workshop of the Flamish Professional Society
CSC Conference in Cirencester
Cornelia Gröhl New Chairman of BVMed Board of Directors
Sterile Supply in Malaysia
Call for Papers: Hygiene Prize
 
MAIN ARTICLES
 
R. Frey:
The Structural and Functional Prerequisites for a Central Sterile Supply Department (CSSD)
 
 

Abstract
Reprocessing and sterile supply in the hospital setting are undergoing rapid changes. Based on the German Medical Devices Act, processing must be conducted with a validated process. Standards, ordinances, guidelines and laws must be strictly complied with in respect of the new forensic demands. Quality management and certification are other slogans which today are also being discussed in the central supply sterilisation departments. But is it at all possible to conduct processing as per quality dictates and using a validated process without having specified orderly structural prerequisites? What functional features are needed in a CSSD? Do these not lead to extra costs for the hospital? The following paper in intended as a means of providing answers to these questions as well as of encouraging discussion.
 
FROM THE FIELD
 
M.H.J. Ruijtenbeek:
Combi-Ster: Hospital Sterilization Facility Outdoor and Outsourced
 
 

Abstract
At Delft in the Netherlands, three general hospitals merged in 1984 into the Reinier de Graaf Group, which was further expanded with the Diagnostic Centre SSDZ in 1992 and another hospital in Voorburg in 1997. The Reinier de Graaf Group provides care for about 0,5 million inhabitants. In 1990, the outdoor CSD, Combi-Ster, was founded, with the support of a supplier. Three hospitals took part in the organisation.

After a lot of difficulties during the initial stage, Combi-Ster was reorganized and relaunched. Focusing on quality, the organisation is now running successfully and has obtained the ISO 9002+ certificate. The article outlines the different stages, the current situation and the preconditions of success.
 
LETTERS
 
Test Procedure for Bowie & Dick Indicators
 
EDUCATION
 
P. Heeg
Infections by Borreliae (Lyme Disease)
 
MAILBOX
 
Protective gowns for CSSD visitors
 
RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE QUALITY TASK GROUP (AK QUALITÄT)
 
Programmes for Automated Processing
 
EFHSS  European Forum for Hospital Sterile Supply

Developed by Baumeister Mediasoft Engineering