Reuse of single-use critical medical devices.

Reuse of single-use medical devices in Canadian acute-care healthcare facilities, 2001.

AORN guidance statement: Reuse of single-use devices.

Today's economic environment has compelled health care organizations to explore methods to reduce health care costs. One prospective approach to controlling rising costs is to reprocess single-use medical devices. Reprocessing is rigorously regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). AORN, the Association of periOpera-tive Registered Nurses, recognizes the need for each health care ...

Requiem for reuse of single-use devices in US hospitals.

The subject of reusing single-use devices (SUDs) is one that has been discussed, debated, dissected, promoted, and damned seemingly forever. I have been attending conferences and professional and scientific meetings that discussed the pros and cons of reusing SUDs for more than 25 years and, until recently, it was the same story. Those who favored, and indeed practiced, reusing SUDs pointed out...

Current practices and problems in the reuse of single-use devices in Japan.

Along with the popularization of endoscopic surgeries, the reuse of disposable single-use devices (SUDs), which may cause various risks, has become a considerable issue globally. We conducted the survey by questionnaires for the operating room (OR) head nurses to obtain hospital-based answer. First survey was done for three months in 2000 by sending the questionnaires to 2,224 hospitals. The se...

Safety-cost trade-offs in medical device reuse: a Markov decision process model.

Healthcare expenditures in the US are approaching 2 trillion dollars, and hospitals and other healthcare providers are under tremendous pressure to rein in costs. One cost-saving approach which is gaining popularity is the reuse of medical devices which were designed only for a single use. Device makers decry this practice as unsanitary and unsafe, but a growing number of third-party firms are ...