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Granted you could have a database and hospital customers could retrieve that information from there but what happens when they can't?
There are definitely places where the SPD process could be improved but outsourcing isn't a very handsome one.
A few years ago there was an issue with this in Germany
In our hospital anything that came from a Rep, sterilized or not, HAD to be reprocessed as of it were used because there is no way to verify conditions between transport; humidity, height from floor/ceiling, biological incubation and results. On top of that sometimes Reps would only have a single tray but the doc would schedule 4 back to back caeses needing that set. Who gets the blame when it's not ready in time? Not anesthesia for putting the pt under too soon, not the doc for their inability to contact spd prior to scheduling cases, not the nurse for failure to check with the scrub, no it's the SPD staff.
Things like yankhauer and Poole suctions are impossible to clean; many packs come with disposable ones now. Hell, the vast majority of surgical equipment is disposable but hospitals are in the making money business and reuse is much cheaper. Many clinics in our hospital were unaware of how to reprocess their items and would turn in soiled items that sat all weekend covered in blood without any enzymatic cleaner; not to mention half their items were single use but are being treated as multi-use.
Man, I'm glad I moved to being an assist and even happier I left the surgical field in general.
Company X spends Y months advertising baby items to you, then at month Z- due to no fault of your own- a still birth occurs. Company X continues to advertise baby items for A time frame until the algo realizes you are not interested. Unless there's a market for people advertising for services/products for still births- they need better adwords- then there's no loss to the company being paid for the advertisement.
Although extremely sad and very common- not so much so in a 1st world country- company x has no reason to stop. It's the advertisers who are "at fault" and even then, who are they to care about someone else's feelings? Maybe people using these 'free' services need to utilize better coping skills.
Might want to look up the IFU or AORN standards for those. I know many places either toss them out of their kits or are single use only. Something about pitting and the metal they are made of.
Only thing I can think of to thwart auto-fill sniffing is populating the form with junk data on page load then waiting for the user to enter their access id/user name before the password field is filled. This "solution" still doesn't protect the 3rd part script from intercepting the submit button.
That's a little over the top. Proper dosing- TRT levels- and regular blood work can keep some of the issues at bay.
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Edit: That was sort of tongue-in-cheek, but I could see being able to run your finger around the screen and when you hit a 'dot' there's a haptic response.
Sounds pretty accurate to me.