OR Manager: Winning Converts to SUD Reprocessing (June 2010):

Reprocessing of single-use devices is now mainstream, with an estimated 70% of US hospitals using single-use devices reprocessed by third-party cmpanies, according to industry figures.
In an opinion piece in the March 2010 Academic Medicine, authors from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine call reprocessing a “common sense strategy” that has a reliable safety record while being environmentallyl friend.

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