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Gajuryal
Junior Resident
MD(Hospital Administration)
B.P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences,Nepal
Definition
The Central Sterile Supply Department (CSSD) is the
service responsible for receiving, storing, processing,
distributing and controlling the professional supplies
and equipments(both sterile and non sterile) for all
user unit of hospital for the care and safety of patient
under strict quality control.
It is an important facility of hospital that supplies
sterile instruments and materials for dressing and
procedures carried out in ward and other departments
of hospital.
• Belfast
1958
Objectives:
To provide efficient, economic and uniform source of sterile supply for the care
and treatment of sick
To assist purchase department for decision making and selection of goods.
To assist management of hospital in standardization of good
Cleaning ,Packaging ,labeling and dating of material
To supply equipments to highly specialized units.
To educate students, Nurse and ancillary persons
To save nursing time at nursing station
To participate effectively in Hospital infection control committee.
Applied research for improvement techniques.
Physical Facility
Location: Should be ideally located in close proximity
to Casualty, ward, OT and labor room for effectiveness
and efficiency. The location should have adequate
supply of water, both hot and cold, steam, compressed
air and three phase electricity.
Space requirement: The minimum area in sq. ft required
per bed as recommended (Giford, DL-1963)
Contaminated
Disassembling
Area
Area
Condemnation
Cleaning Processing
Clean Area
Assembling(
Drying and
Sterilization Packing)
Sterile Area
Storage
Issuing Ward,
ICU,Labor counter>> Emergency,
Room,OT Distribution OPD & other
units
Operation
1.Rinsing
2.Cleaning:manually or ultrasound washer
3.Drying:manually or in natural way
4.Inspection and assembly: Damaged item should be
condemned ,repairable should be repaired then
assembled
5.Packaging: done with linen/draper after drying and
assembling
6.Labeling:Done for identification. Date, contents,
identification number, bar codes, initial of person who
carried out sterilization, initial of packers are used
Sterilization
Sterilization is the process of freeing any articles from
living microorganisms including bacteria, Fungi, Virus
etc. This process is carried out through sterilizers.
1.Heat Sterilization
Dry Heat Sterilization
Steam Sterilization
2.ETO (Ethylene Oxide Sterilization)
3.Chemical Sterilization
4.Radiation Sterilization (Gamma)
Heat Sterilization
1.Dry Heat Sterilization:
In conventional Hot air oven, sterilization is carried
out at 160 degree C for 1 hour. The most suitable article
for DHS is glass wares, particularly glass syringe, But
nowadays use of glass syringe has become obsolete.
Another article is cutting edge instrument, Articles
with oil, paraffins are also suitable for this sterilization
as dry heat can penetrate all kind of materials.
Steam Sterilizer
It is most commonly used sterilizer because it is safe
,inexpensive and time saving. There should be proper
coordination between pressure, temperature and time .
Articles are subjected to sterilize in 121 degree Celsius in 10-
15 minutes and 134 degree Celsius in 3 minutes in 20 PSI
pressure.