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Archive > January, 2011 Vol. XII, No. 1

Buying Refurbished? Don't Get Stuck With a Lemon

How to outfit your ORs with used equipment that's almost as good as new — at a fraction of the price.

Irene Tsikitas, Associate Editor

Buying refurbished is a great way to outfit your facility with reliable, working equipment without breaking the budget. The only problem? You can get stuck with a lemon if you don't do your homework. "I wish there was a Carfax for used equipment," says Stuart Katz, FACHE, CASC, executive director of the Tucson (Ariz.) Orthopaedic Surgery Center, referring to the vehicle history reports that tell shoppers the ownership, accident and repair history of used cars. No such service exists for surgical devices, but you can perform your own assessment of a piece of refurbished equipment by focusing on 3 areas: the equipment's history, its present condition and its future reliability.

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