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This is an important article. I read several years ago about manufacturers sterilizing medical tools with radiation before they left the factory. I could imagi
by andrewl 7y ago
This is an important article.
I read several years ago about manufacturers sterilizing medical tools with radiation before they left the factory. I could imagine that the setup for doing that is too complex and dangerous for a regular hospital to run, but could it be offered as an outside service? Tools that can't undergo autoclaving could be sent out for irradiation after every surgery.
But this is very much not my area, so there are probably a hundred things wrong with my suggestion that I'm too uneducated to see.
- ChuckNorris89 7y agoGood point. Couldn't Gamma radiation kill what heat alone won't? Edit: Did some research, Gamma radiation can't kill prions. That's one though SOAB.
- totallynotcool 7y agoThe issue is trust/verification during transport. Were temp/humidity kept in check? What was the biological lot number? Model of the machine that read the biological? Temp sterilization/dry time? Granted you could have a database and hospital customers could retrieve that information from there but what happens when they can't? There are definitely places where the SPD process could be improved but outsourcing isn't a very handsome one.