Handling

The cleaned empty transport carts are transported from the cart wash to the loading station. Empty transport carts can also be supplied (e.g. for endoscopes). The sterile basket stacks are automatically destacked, inspected by means of vision, scanned and fed into the loading station.

Based on current network information from HIS (e.g. department, prioritization), the baskets are automatically placed in the transport cart or buffer rack (in the loading station) by a pick & place system. Transport carts that are ready (filled) are automatically exported to the sterile lock ready for collection.

In summary, the loading station for transport carts offers the following advantages over existing situations:

• The physical strain on the CSSD employees is greatly reduced (heavy lifting and pulling movements are eliminated)
• Optimal loading of transport carts (baskets clustered per department, urgent handling)
• The transport carts are loaded automatically
• No more separate racks for nets/baskets necessary in the department

The unloading station transport carts receives incoming trolleys (filled with baskets of dirty instruments) from the OR into the dirty lock of the CSSD.

The transport carts are automatically fed into the unloading station and the baskets are automatically removed from the transport cart, scanned and placed in a buffer rack (inside the unloading station). Empty transport carts are automatically fed into the cart wash (empty transport carts can also be entered, e.g. empty scope carts).

Based on up-to-date network information from the HIS (e.g. status, prioritization), the baskets are prioritized and offered at working height to the CSSD employee in the dirty room.

The unloading station for transport carts offers the following advantages compared to existing situations:

• The physical strain on the CSSD employees is greatly reduced (heavy lifting and pulling movements are eliminated)
• Process optimization (managing capacity, smoothed division of labor over the day, handling urgency)
• The transport carts are automatically unloaded
• No more separate racks for nets necessary in the department