Inhospital packaging rationale

Abstract

Inhospital packaging rationaleAt the 1975 AORN Congress, the AORN Technical Standards Committee provided delegates and members with a questionnaire concerning current and mutual problems of operating room management.The results of that survey indicated that a lack of standards for inhospital packaging and shelf-life of products were major problems to operating room personnel.Thus, the Technical Standards Committee was charged to study and to identify problems relating to packaging and shelf-life of inhospital manufactured items and to initiate action toward developing standards for packaging and shelf-life.In summary, the committee has developed minimum standards for inhospital packaging materials and formulated a valid, commonsense protocol for the protection of sterilized articles in storage, handling, and use.These minimum standards are the first step toward establishing total packaging standards, which must further and jointly be resolved with the central service, nursing, medical,