Reprocessing Wars
Outpatient Surgery Magazine May 2011 Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief Stacy Howard, RN, MHA, MBA, has major purchasing power. She buys all of the operating room and general medical supplies for the Sisters of Mercy Health System's
FDA Looks to Improve Design and Cleaning Instructions for Reusable Medical Devices
SURGistrategies May 3, 2011 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced steps to help reduce the risk of exposure to improperly reprocessed devices that can lead to the transmission of disease. Medical devices intended
MedCon Medical Device Conference 2011
AMDR participates in MedCon 2011. Xavier University host's MedCon's Medical Device Conference 2011 in Cincinnati May 3-6. AMDR joins the global medical device community to discuss the most pressing issues facing the medical device industry.
AMDR Participates in European Medical Travel Conference in Barcelona
AMDR participated in the annual European Medical Travel Conference, this year in Barcelona last week. AMDR focused on bringing attention to high quality and lower cost reprocessed devices to a globally integrated healthcare delivery market http://ow.ly/4IQPE
Australia, Therapeutic Goods Administration:
Regulatory Guidelines for Medical Devices (2011), Section 19 Single-Use Devices (SUDs) and the Reuse of SUDs “…When a SUD is reused, the TGA considers that the device has been remanufactured as the: · intended purpose
Setting the Record Straight: The Debate over Reprocessing Should Focus on Facts and Science, Not Scare Tactics and Innuendo
In the May 2011 edition of the Journal of Medical Device Regulation, AMDR President Dan Vukelich wrote a letter to the editor in response to a previously published article, written by Peter Schroeer (Eucomed Reuse Task