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Supporting Workers and Quality Management in Sterilization Departments

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Sterilization of medical instruments is a complex task because of legal prescriptions and many regulatory specifications. Complicated instruments must be correctly disassembled and loaded on a rack before they can be automatically processed in a cleaning and disinfection machine. This paper proposes an assistive system helping workers to avoid fatal errors during reprocessing. The system provides disassembly instructions and important information for the reprocessing of medical instruments to attract the worker’s attention to critical issues. Continuous improvements and context-sensitive instructions are integrated by the use of business process models, a tabletop projection system with a gestural interface and radio-frequency identification (RFID) for instrument tracking. The user interface adapts to the criticality levels of instruments, which are continuously gathered and updated from the quality management of a sterilization department.

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  1. Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics, Bielefeld University, Universittsstr. 25, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany

    Stefan Rüther, Maik Mracek & Jochen Steil

  2. CITEC Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 21-23, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany

    Thomas Hermann & Stefan Kopp

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  1. for Smart Technology and Smart Living, Stichting Smart Homes, Smart Homes Research Centre, Eindhoven, 5605, Netherlands

    Ad van Berlo

  2. , The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense M, 5230, Denmark

    Kasper Hallenborg

  3. , Departamento de Informática, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, Salamanca, 37008, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado Rodríguez

  4. Departamento de Informática, y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, Salamanca, 37008, Spain

    Dante I. Tapia

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Rüther, S., Hermann, T., Mracek, M., Kopp, S., Steil, J. (2013). Supporting Workers and Quality Management in Sterilization Departments. In: van Berlo, A., Hallenborg, K., Rodríguez, J., Tapia, D., Novais, P. (eds) Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 219. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00566-9_29

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