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Archive >  Abdominal Surgery 2007

Are Reprocessed Trocars a Value or a Risk?

Infection control and cost savings may not be mutually exclusive.

Nathan Hall, Associate Editor

When you see the "single-use only" label on your trocar packaging, do you do you heed it, disposing of each trocar after use? Or are you among the many facilities ? including some of the nation's finest ? that sends them off to a reprocessor and buys the re-sterilized devices for a fraction of the price of new?

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