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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.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday March 01 2018, @08:08PM (1 child)
Take a tour of a med-device sterilization facility sometime, then tell me what your 10% non-sterile estimate turns to. I'm sure there are some places where it would run higher, but the ones I've worked at in the U.S. probably run closer to 0.001% non-sterile at time of unpackaging, and those that are non-sterile are mostly sterile.
The latest trend in sterilization is fast-cycle EtO - we just decreased our cycle time to 12 hours. EtO is nasty, explosive stuff - if our EtO facility ignited, it would leave a big crater, and the "windows blown out" blast radius would be something like 500 meters. They put up with this little challenge because it's really really good at killing bacteria and viruses without degrading the finished products being sterilized. It's not your hospitals' typical autoclave.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01 2018, @10:39PM
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