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Do you know why they couldn't switch back to glass syringes?
by _bypa 6mo ago
Do you know why they couldn't switch back to glass syringes?
- faangguyindia 6mo agoIf you forget to autoclave them or not done properly you end up with infected patients, risk is just too much
- NDlurker 6mo agoPrions aren't destroyed by autoclave
- Loughla 6mo agoNo but viruses and bacteria are. What's your point and how common is transmitting prions?
- NDlurker 6mo agoMy point is disposable is superior
- Marsymars 6mo agoThey can "survive" autoclave cycles that render other pathogens dead/inactive, but there do exist autoclave cycles that seem to pretty reliably inactivate prions.
- seb1204 6mo agoSounds like the same risk as this situation of reusing them.
- kube-system 6mo agoWell if you’re going to infect people, might as well save money while doing so :)
- jjk166 6mo agoWe sterilize plenty of other common tools like scalpels so that doesn't seem like a valid reason. Obviously the disposable design is not even an adequate solution to the risk of cross contamination. I would imagine if it were a real concern you could easily add something like a color changing strip that would indicate whether the needle has been autoclaved since its last use without rendering it useless.
- ButlerianJihad 6mo agoEquipment that can be sterilized has been forced out of the market by these disposable things. It is far easier to push disposable product on medical providers and encourage rent-seeking and subscriptions to such things. It’s exactly the same way with contact lenses. When I was in college in the ’90s, I could get a pair of permanent contact lenses. They would cost a few hundred bucks, but they would last me several years if the prescription didn’t change. They were the same as glasses. You would clean them everyday and disinfect them, and they would serve quite well permanently. But the contact lens industry decided that wasn’t good enough, and decided that they could sell subscription services for contact lenses that you would need to discard every night. And those daily wear contact lenses, the disposable kind, basically forced out of the market the permanent ones and now the optometrist regards me as a Martian when I request permanent lenses instead.
- nulld3v 6mo agoIt's not like glass syringes are out of production though? They are still pretty cheap, I get them for $0.50 each from China.
- technion 6mo agoSurely there is a cost to sterilising too.
- cromka 6mo agoYou completely ignored human error aspect. Before the blood donation centers used one time use equipment, donors were getting infected with something nasty every now and then. You can sure as hell expect people to commonly forget to properly sanitize those syringes.
- M95D 6mo agoSterilization is* the most strictly controlled process in any hospital. Nobody can just "forget" to sterilize or pick up a used syringe thinking it's sterile. * Or at least it should be. It seems that Pakistan is different.
- kqgnkqgn 6mo agoIf you can't trust them to follow the very easy directions of "throw away the single use syringe", how likely is it that they are going to follow the much more complicated process of properly sanitizing the glass syringe?