
STERIS is the official repair vendor for
V. Mueller™ Surgical Instruments.
Surgical instruments are vital to the Operating Room (OR) daily operations. Healthcare facilities need to have confidence 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 surgical instrument repair service for manual instrumentation across service specialties, including stainless steel, laparoscopic, and micro surgical instruments.
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 damages to your surgical instrumentation, minimize costly repairs, and extend your instrument’s life. From general maintenance to more complex repairs, STERIS offers a broad range of repair services for your surgical instruments, including:
Why the Surgical Instrument Repair Service?
STERIS offers a Comprehensive
Repair Network
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800+ Repair Technicians |
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300+ Repair Vehicles |
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8 Repair Facilities |
STERIS offers various repair and maintenance services to meet your facility’s needs. Our surgical instrument repair services include:
OnLocationSM Repair Services
Our skilled service professionals provide same-day, convenient repair and restoration services at your healthcare facility. Our comprehensive maintenance, repair, and restoration services across surgical specialties include stainless, laparoscopic, and microscopic surgical instrumentation, case cart, operating room rolling equipment, retractor systems, and positioning device repair.
In-House Repair Labs
Dedicated, full-time, highly-trained technician(s) within your healthcare facility maximize throughput and streamline communication. These efficiencies create time for hands-on labs and education. Both long and short-term engagements are available. Our repair specialists provide real-time recommendations based on observations at point-of-service and deliver hands-on education that guides best practices and supports staff development.
Rapid Response Repair Team
Healthcare facilities with urgent or large-scale instrument needs can receive OnLocationSM Instrument Repair Services at your facility with our dedicated team of STERIS repair specialists. Our fully equipped team provides services to help resolve regulatory compliance risks and servicing large volumes of instrument sets in short timeframes. Our Rapid Response capabilities include tape removal, laser marking, surgical instrument repair and restoration, and caster replacement.
Instrument Case Cart and OR Rolling Stock Repair
Alternative Equipment Maintenance (AEM) for instrument case carts and operating room rolling equipment is available at your facility. On-location repair of transport and rolling equipment helps ensure your staff and surgical assets are protected from strain and potential bio-hazard displacement.
Equipment maintenance is tracked and monitored utilizing STERIS's proprietary inventory planning system and reconciled with your internal tracking system. All information is reported and available 24/7 through our Customer portal, providing you with all the required documentation for accreditation of your AEM program and budget analysis. Helping to ensure your surgical instrument sets get to and from the OR smoothly.
Positioning Device and Retractor System Repair
Repair services for positioning devices and surgical retractor systems position your surgical procedures for success. STERIS offers preventative 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. Surgeon frustration can be reduced by proactively inspecting and maintaining full retractor systems. With guaranteed three-day turnaround times, scheduled service intervals give you the capability to plan for low-cost routine maintenance while avoiding equipment failure and costly downtime.
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Repair offerings to 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.
STERIS has partnered with Becton, Dickson, and Company (BD) to provide a comprehensive portfolio of V. Mueller™ surgical instruments to replace missing and unrepairable instruments at the point of service.
Our tracing reports ensure that all surgical instrument replacement spending is counted toward STERIS and BD. Common I-Xchange® instruments include:
I-XCHANGE® Service Offerings
STERIS is the official repair vendor for
V. Mueller™ Surgical Instruments.
Reduce time spent searching for replacement surgical instruments during tray assembly.
STERIS is the official repair vendor
for V. Mueller™ Surgical Instruments.
V. Mueller™ Heritage and Affinity instruments are included in the
I-Xchange® program.