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Labour/scale, indeed. The facilities where these things are usually produced have the capacity to make sure they are sterile. Hospitals cannot sterilise items
by Svip 7y ago
Labour/scale, indeed. The facilities where these things are usually produced have the capacity to make sure they are sterile. Hospitals cannot sterilise items to the same scale.
You just need to be careless once for it to be a problem. And considering how many sterile items you need to use every day - particularly in an emergency - it is not unlikely that one item went back into the reuse cycle without being sterilised. It's to avoid the question, 'was this item sterilised?' If its wrapper is open, assume it is used. You can only do that safely with single-use items.
- richmarr 7y ago> If its wrapper is open, assume it is used. You can only do that safely with single-use items. How about putting the re-usable item in a wrapper so that the same rule can apply.
- killjoywashere 7y agoAll surgical steel is reused exactly this way. There are plenty of plastics that get autoclaved as well.
- Entalpi 7y agoExcept that sterilised items usually are repackaged in some way that removes this doubt. I have seen many different techniques for this kind of workflow.