Monday, May 26, 2008

Hospitals Reusing Disposable Devices

A significant number of Canadian hospitals are reusing single-use medical devices and the vast majority of those that do sterilize them in-house – a practice fraught with risk, infection control experts say ... Among devices being reused are biopsy forceps used in stomach and bowel surgery, membrane scrapers used in eye surgery, breast pump kits and tools used to bore through bone.