Health system confirms 'isolated issue' with equipment used to wash surgical instruments
Employees at Kaiser Zion Medical Center in Grantville are calling for the suspension of all surgeries at the facility due to what they say is visible contamination of the trays that hold sterilized surgical instruments.
On Friday, June 2, she said, it was necessary to open 23 trays before one was found without materials inside. The contaminants, she said, continued to appear during her overnight shift Monday to Tuesday.In a written statement, Kaiser rejected employees’ calls for a surgical shutdown at Zion. “We are currently cleaning and flushing the lines of this equipment to remove all residual particulates,” Kaiser said. “In the meantime, surgical instruments used at Zion Medical Center are being safely cleaned and processed at our nearby San Diego Medical Center and an outside agency.”
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