In your sterilisation room you’ll have a computer attached to the autoclave.

This computer has specialised software to store data about each sterilisation cycle in a secure format.

Attached to the computer there will also a printer that prints off barcode stickers to be affixed to each pouch after a sterilisation cycle.

The barcode on each sticker is the sterilisation cycle ID.

When the instruments are later used on a patient, a handheld barcode scanner is used to record the cycle ID to that patient’s records.

Also stored are the date of use and the ID of the user.

The video below shows the workflow to scanning in barcodes into Panara (these are just random barcodes btw)