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Doctor Accused of Reusing One-Use Anal Catheters on Multiple Patients

posted by martyb on Thursday March 01 2018, @11:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the Oh-shit dept.

Fnord666 writes:

Colon and rectal surgeon Sanjiv Patankar allegedly washed and reused catheters that are inserted into patients' rectum during medical procedures. The instruments, which are used to examine patients with fecal incontinence, constipation, and other possible disorders, are supposed to be thrown away after a single use.

Patankar, who practiced in East Brunswick, [New Jersey] allegedly instructed medical assistants to wash the instruments in soapy water after use, soak them in bleach solutions, and then rinse before air-drying them. The doctor also reportedly ordered to continue using a catheter that has started to break down due to overbleaching.

In a hearing conducted Dec. 19, the state said that documented evidence appears to show that between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30, Patankar's office performed 82 procedures but only five catheters were used over that period.

Source: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/217801/20171230/doctor-accused-of-reusing-one-use-anal-catheters-on-multiple-patients.htm

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  • (Score: 1, Redundant) by c0lo on Thursday March 01 2018, @02:25PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 01 2018, @02:25PM (#645766) Journal

    Did the doctor follow an empirically verified sterilization procedure?

    As TFA says he wasn't charged of any damage to patients even after the Attorney General office was involved. I musy assume that he himself empirically verified the sterilization procedure and followed it, no? (grin)

    This doctor was at a minimum using devices not intended to be used this way...

    TFA says that's the maximum as well:

    "Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino and the Division of Consumer Affairs today announced that a Committee of the State Board of Medical Examiners ("the Committee") has temporarily suspended the license of a Middlesex surgeon amid allegations he jeopardized his patients' health and safety by reusing single-use catheters on multiple patients during anorectal diagnostic testing.," the office of the Attorney General said in a statement.

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