Institutional SOP Packet
Editable reference templates for institutional hirudotherapy programs — starting points your own clinical and legal governance must review, adapt, and formally approve before any use.
Education, not medical or legal advice
The Institutional SOP Packet is a set of editable reference templates published for educational and infrastructure purposes only. It is not legal advice and not medical advice, and it does not authorize, certify, or permit any procedure. Every template is a starting point that requires review, adaptation, and formal local policy sign-off by your institution's own clinical and legal governance before any use.
What the SOP Packet is
The American Society of Hirudotherapy is a nonprofit medical-education society. We build shared infrastructure and education templates — we do not deliver treatment, and we do not issue cures, outcomes, or efficacy claims.
The SOP Packet is a productized collection of editable reference templates for institutions that are building or formalizing a hirudotherapy program. It gives your team a consistent, well-named starting structure for infection-control checklists, documentation flowsheets, and onboarding standard-operating-procedure outlines, so your governance spends its time adapting and approving content rather than drafting blank documents from scratch.
Every item in the packet ships as an editable draft with placeholder fields. The templates are deliberately generic starting points: they are written to be revised against your own setting, your applicable local rules, and the judgment of your own qualified clinical and legal reviewers.
What is included
Infection-control checklists
Reference checklist templates covering aseptic-field setup, single-use handling steps, disposal staging, and surface-decontamination logging. Structured as fill-in starting points, not validated protocols.
Documentation flowsheets
Editable flowsheet layouts for recording session metadata, consent confirmation, observation notes, and follow-up scheduling. Field labels and required entries are placeholders for your governance to define.
Onboarding SOP starting points
Outline-level SOP scaffolds for staff orientation, role definitions, escalation pathways, and competency-tracking sections that your institution adapts to its own staffing and policy structure.
Adaptation and review log
A template change-log and sign-off sheet so your clinical and legal governance can document who reviewed, edited, and formally approved each template before any operational use.
The mandatory step: local review and formal sign-off
Templates are starting points, not finished policy. Before any template in this packet is used in any operational, clinical, or patient-facing context, it must be reviewed, adapted, and formally approved through your institution's own clinical and legal governance process.
The expected adaptation path is:
- Review each template against your institution's setting, staffing, equipment, and the rules that actually apply where you operate.
- Adapt the wording, fields, thresholds, and escalation pathways to match your own validated procedures and risk controls.
- Route the adapted document through your clinical governance and qualified legal counsel for formal review.
- Record the formal approval and sign-off in your own quality system before the document is put into use.
Local approval is always required. Nothing in this packet replaces that step, and nothing in it should be read as permission to skip it.
What the SOP Packet is not
- Not legal advice, and not a substitute for review by your own qualified counsel.
- Not medical advice, and not a clinical protocol you may apply to any patient as written.
- Not a protocol authorization, accreditation, certification, or permission to perform any procedure.
- Not a guarantee of regulatory, payer, or accreditation compliance in any jurisdiction.
- Not a source of any treatment, outcome, efficacy, or cure claim.
Indicative pricing
Pricing below is indicative and provided for planning conversations only. It is not a quote, not an offer, and not a commitment; final terms depend on scope and are confirmed directly.
- Single-institution SOP Packet license — indicative, one-time, covers the editable template set for a single institution's internal adaptation and use.
- Multi-site or network license — indicative, scaled to the number of sites adapting the templates under shared governance.
- Adaptation-support add-on — indicative, optional educational support while your own governance reviews and approves the templates.
All figures are indicative and subject to change. They do not include the cost of your own clinical and legal review, which remains the institution's responsibility.
Requires local policy sign-off
These reference templates carry no treatment authorization and make no cure or outcome claims. They are starting points only. Do not use any template in a live setting until it has been adapted to your jurisdiction and formally approved by your institution's own clinical and legal governance.
