The NICE interventional procedure guidance 196 outlines the requirements on healthcare professionals to reduce the risk of transmitting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) between patients under going high-risk surgical procedures.
Key to compliance is the ability to provide traceability to an individual level i.e. unique permanent ID on all surgical instruments, to enable instrument migration to be effectively managed and these rigorous processes to be underpinned by robust business rules. An audit trail provides evidence of compliance. Scantrack Instrument Management System will manage the “pool” of instruments kept for use on patients born after 1 January 1997 to ensure that items are not used on patients born before that time.
