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Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

Contact Congress Over Drug Shortage Issues

A Kentucky congressman is urging surgical facilities to contact their members of Congress and request that they sign his letter demanding changes to...

N.J. Posts ASC Inspection Reports Online

State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

Are Opioids Necessary?

While it's not always practical, or even possible, to eliminate opioids from your post-op pain management regiment, reducing their use in favor of n...

Archive > January, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 1

Inside the "Non-Recall Recall" of the SS1

Citing safety concerns and a product that's been modified but never approved, the FDA is giving Steris System 1 owners 6 months to buy another reprocessor.

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

Thousands of Steris System 1 sterilizer users have to make room in their capital equipment budgets to replace their SS1s, an unplanned purchase they must make by mid-year thanks to last month's loosely worded safety alert from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that one surgical facility manager called a "non-recall recall."

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