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Surgical Instrument Repair

Surgical instruments are vital to daily operations in the operating room (OR). Healthcare facilities must be confident that instruments are procedure-ready for safe patient outcomes. After extended use, surgical instrument performance deteriorates and requires maintenance and proper repair to prolong their life and maximize performance. STERIS Surgical Instrument Repair offers a comprehensive repair service for manual instrumentation across service specialties, including stainless steel, laparoscopic, and microsurgical instruments.

service overview

How STERIS Surgical Instrument Repair Service Works

STERIS Surgical Instrument Repair services include proactive maintenance and repair for manual instrumentation. Utilizing this service can help you avoid extensive damage to your surgical instrumentation, minimize costly repairs, and extend your instruments’ life. From general maintenance to more complex repairs, STERIS offers a broad range of repair services for your surgical instruments, including:

  • Surgical instrument inspection, testing, maintenance, and repair
  • Sterilization containers
  • Laparoscopic instrument services
  • Microsurgical instrument repairs
  • Preventive maintenance inspections and repair services for surgical positioning devices and retractor systems
 
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Why choose surgical instrument repair

Why the Surgical Instrument Repair Service?

  • Comprehensive repair offerings – Our technicians work with you to provide quick, reliable repair and maintenance services for your surgical instruments
  • Repair process validation – Where required, we verify and validate that the parameters of your surgical devices are working at peak performance and procedure-ready, utilizing on-site preventative maintenance tools
  • Additional educational offerings – Broad educational resources help to provide the knowledge and tools to educate your staff and reduce unnecessary repair costs and instrument damage

repair capabilities

Surgical Instrument sharpening
Surgical Instrument Sharpening
  • Over time, continual use of instruments can cause misalignment and cutting edges to become dull. Our mobile instrument sharpening service can help prolong the instrument's life and provide peace of mind that your instruments work as intended by aligning our services to your procedural use while utilizing specialized tools and targeted education. 
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Positioning Device and Retractor System Repair
  • Repair services for positioning devices and surgical retractor systems position your surgical procedures for success
  • STERIS offers preventive maintenance programs for positioning devices, including leg positioning stirrups, knee positioning devices, arm boards, full body positioning accessories, and head positioning systems
  • Accessing the surgical site is critical. Proactively inspecting and maintaining full retractor systems can reduce surgeon frustration. Scheduled service intervals allow you to plan for low-cost routine maintenance while avoiding equipment failure and costly downtime.
 

repair process

Repair offerings to help your facility every step of the way

From patient positioning devices to instrument case carts, STERIS Instrument Repair services provide extensive repair offerings to your facility every step of the way.

  • Position – Properly positioning patients in the OR is critical to providing safe and effective surgical procedures. Our repair technicians have the expertise to keep your positioning devices functioning as intended.
  • Access – STERIS provides repair services to surgical retractor systems that enhance visualization and provide surgeons access to organs during surgical procedures
  • Treat – From general maintenance to complex repairs, STERIS offers repair services for surgical instruments used to treat patients during procedures
  • Transport – Maintenance for case carts and operating room rolling equipment helps ensure your instruments get to and from the OR smoothly
 
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preventive maintenance: steris restore

Preventive Maintenance: STERIS Restore

Being able to rely on instrument sets consistently is essential to efficiently running your OR. Failure or poor performance of an instrument can create costly delays to operations, jeopardizing patient safety and the surgeon’s interaction with the instrument. STERIS offers a preventive maintenance program for your instrument trays, which brings your trays back to an as-new standard: STERIS Restore. For a single price per tray, regardless of the work required, we will:

  • Renew and sharpen instruments
  • Align, adjust & tighten instruments
  • Replace worn, missing, or broken parts
  • Replace instruments that are beyond economical repair
  • Laser mark
  • Lubricate, polish, and refinish

Tray refurbishment restores the quality and performance of the instruments and reduces downtime associated with lengthy repairs and sourcing replacement items. The program will extend the life of the instrument inventory and reduce the need to invest in and replace instruments. STERIS Restore will be managed to minimize operational impact, only removing instruments/trays where clinical services are not impacted.

 
Surgical instrument sharpening Restore Service
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