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Unlicensed Cosmetic Surgery Hospitalizes 6 in N.J.

New Jersey medical authorities are investigating the incidence of and issuing alerts on unlicensed cosmetic surgery providers after 6 women suffered...

Rotator Cuff Repair Restores Strength, Not Function

Rotator cuff surgery may restore a patient's normal shoulder strength, but mobility issues persist in the repaired joint, according to researchers a...

Do Patients Expect Too Much From Joint Replacement?

Even with a thorough pre-op education program, more than two-thirds of joint replacement patients don't share the expectations that their surgeons d...

Archive > July, 2009 Vol. X, No. 7
Ready to Reprocess Surgical Supplies?
6 keys to reusing single-use devices safely, efficiently and economically.
Laura Gaminde, RN, BSN, MBA, CNOR

It sounds like a come-on: reprocessed devices at half the cost of new ones. Sounds too good to be true, I know, but we've been sending our highest-volume single-use supplies and devices to a third-party reprocessor for 5 years now, a move that's shaved our supply budget by 36% and provided our surgeons with supplies that are as safe and as functional as brand-new devices.

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