Gibotech intro­duces 3D scanning of a Central Sterile Supply Department

Have you ever seen a Central Sterile Supply Department in a hospital? The department where they wash, examine and sterilize all used surgical equipment – ​​and store it until it needs to be used again.

Unless you actually work in a CSSD, you are unlikely to have seen such a department from the inside.

But now you can. Gibotech has made a 3D scanning of the Central Sterile Supply Department at the Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel.

See all the automation options

On the 3D scanning, you can see the different areas in a Central Sterile Supply Department: the unclean, the clean and the sterile.

In the clean and sterile area, Gibotech has installed various automation solu­tions that help healt­hcare personnel during their workday.

There are, for example, work tables that are auto­ma­ti­cally adjusted to fit the indi­vidual employee. Buffers with robots that place and pick up equipment when employees place an order in the system – and the buffer’s IT system keeps track of which equipment is on which shelves.

There are AGVs that transport equipment between the various work­sta­tions, e.g. from the washing machine to the work table, where an employee checks the instru­ments to ensure that they are still working optimally.

And the big, yellow robot in the corner has the task of stacking wire baskets with instru­ments after weight and size before they are sent further into the auto­clave to be steri­lized, and then further into the sterile buffer.

Each point can be expanded with more infor­mation about the indi­vidual solution.

Semi or fully automated

When you choose automation solu­tions for a CSSD – or any other department – ​​you can choose to go with the full package or just some indi­vidual solu­tions that suit your needs.

The adju­stable work tables will in them­selves provide better working condi­tions for the healt­hcare personnel because the height and the light can be adjusted. And the AGVs alone will still save employees from spending time trans­porting equipment from one place to another.

Whatever you choose, the imple­men­tation of an automation solution will relieve employees and lead to a more effi­cient workflow, because the same task is performed conti­nuously by the automation solution; it does not leave in favour of another task or take a lunch break.

The 3D scan was made in colla­bo­ration with EUC Lillebælt.