>> What do you think of sterilisation in the hospital environment?
Several steps are required for decontamination and sterilisation. Despite the modernisation of equipment and strict observance of procedures, the re-sterilisation of surgical micro-instruments continues to give rise to possible reliability problems, particularly when risk-exposed surgery is involved, regardless of the quality of the facility where the operation is performed.
Moreover, the micro-instruments that we use in ophthalmology are high precision and very fragile and do not hold up well when exposed to manual disinfecting processes (deterioration, loss of precision...).
>> What are the repercussions of these methods when you are performing surgery?
The discovery of bent or deteriorated instruments, just when an operation is about to take place, puts us in a difficult position
with our patient and may pose a risk for surgical procedures. It is also obvious that the
various manual stages of the sterilisation process, considering the sensitivity of the eyeball, may
cause minor or major infections that can lead to a risk of blindness.
>> Given such risks, what are the benefits of disposable instruments?
Today, thanks to these disposable micro-instruments, we know that new instruments are
disposed of after each operation, thereby enabling us to ensure rigorous precision for this
type of surgery.
These instruments are clean and sterile, have never used before and guarantee 100%
surgical safety for our operations.
