If one were to drown out all the noise that surrounds the ancient Japanese martial arts form of “Aikido”, its concept blooms into a philosophy. It’s more cerebral than it is physical, a game of chess, so to speak, where strategy but most importantly, “efficiency” is the operative word. Efficiency allows optimal utilization of the opponent’s momentum by redirecting their strength to your advantage. Akin to the concept of “Aikido” is the philosophy practiced by the folks at Innovative Sterilization Technologies, where converting a looming disadvantage into an advantage is the way to go. All in all, “optimal efficiency” is the operative word at every turn, where ‘Less is More.’

In the field of sterilization of surgical instruments, while timesaving, cost reduction and surgical efficiencies have been a distant dream for hospitals, surgeons and OEMs, Innovative Sterilization Technologies is at the nexus of disrupting the market with the highly efficient filtered vent sterilization containers— ONE TRAY®. “We consider ourselves a small company and function as one from the top-down, utilizing a distributorship model in sales for instance, and ultimately get exactly what we want out to the marketplace in a form that can be understood by the market,” says Scott Cohen, Founder/CEO, Innovative Sterilization Technologies (IST). Simple it may sound, cliché it may seem, but “efficiency” has been the mantra for success as far as Team Cohen is concerned. There is not an ounce of “cliché” however in the stir that Cohen’s small but driven and efficient team has brewed up in the market they operate in.

For over 40 years, surgeons haven’t had a choice but to work with sterilization container technologies that take close to three hours in the sterilization process. Evidently, hospitals had been far from gleaning any value or savings from these conventional methodologies. They didn’t have a choice, until now. Thanks to IST’s ONE TRAY^® Sealed Sterilization Containers, efficiency and lower global sterilization costs have become a tangible reality. Having hitched the wagon of its reputation to the star of efficiency, IST is empowering hospitals with a technology that promises both cost savings along with a more efficient and faster way to process that instrumentation. It stands to reason that over 1,400 hospitals and 400 surgery centers have expressed great confidence in the use of this innovative technology. However, according to Cohen, IST is just getting started.



Enter ONE TRAY^®

As a sterilization container company, IST was born with a singular focus on changing the game for surgical facilities that are experiencing unprecedented demands for cost controls and improved efficiency. While many facilities are wasting money on archaic practices and redundant infrastructure, IST is challenging the orthodoxies by improving the processing of surgical instrumentation and supplies. The surgical facilities can now leverage ONE TRAY^® Sealed Sterilization Containers—sealed containers delivering faster sterilization processing capability of medical devices—to improve the utilization of medical devices and reprocessed supplies. The efficient technology underpinning ONE TRAY^® Sealed Sterilization Containers has been cleared by the FDA with a 4 minute at 270-degree sterilization cycle with no required dry time and a defined shelf life. This is a huge advantage as all the other technologies require a dry time to ensure sterility maintenance. Moreover, ONE TRAY^® Sealed Sterilization Containers can be stored per the facilities procedures.

From the technology standpoint, ONE TRAY^® marks its uniqueness for being cleared with mitigation of the typical dry time in the autoclave. This significantly shortens the sterilization cycle. Used to hold temperature tolerant medical devices during steam sterilization cycles, the patented ONE TRAY® design leverages the thermodynamic behavior of steam to efficiently and expeditiously attain sterility within a sealed container. The number, relative size, and positioning of the filtered vent configuration create a flow pattern that assures the expeditious and complete dispersal of saturated steam throughout the container.