Why Use Disposable Medical Supplies And Single Use Devices

الجمعة، 26 أبريل 2019

By Angela Brown


The number one priority of healthcare professionals is the safety of their patients. They want to ensure that what they do will really help the patient become healthy. Today, more and more professionals are now switching from reusable to disposable medical supplies Jamaica because of many reasons.

Disposable medical supplies are high quality, designed to comply with even the strictest standards and requirements. The debate of whether reusable is better than disposable equipment still continues. There are benefits which you could get from disposables which are not provided by reusable. Here are some advantages that you can get from it.

Single use devices. These are those devices which are used on a patient during a one time procedure which are disposed right after using. While the reusable are those that are reprocessed after a procedure. The steps for that includes, cleaning, then disinfecting, and last is sterilization.

Cross contamination, healthcare associated infections, and other surgical site infections are the risk that you have to think about when making use of reusables. Risks of getting cross contaminated increases since the discovery of new bacteria which could be resistant to disinfectant drug which are used in sterilization.

Disposable equipment. Over the years, the shift to using these have been steady, while the trend keeps on increasing. Healthcare associated infections are threats to patients. These infections can be very costly even if you have a health insurance. All healthcare centers will be subjected to penalties if they reduced the payments of Medicaid and Medicare.

There is also the human resources required. Right after using the scissors ten times, it might need to be resharpened, adding another cost again. Disposable scissors on the other hand only costs about seven dollars, but still more money and resources is spent on such. Knowing which scissors offers great quality is hard, the reason why reusables are less popular.

Managing these are also easier. Staffs must allocate resources and time in order to track the reusable instruments and to avoid any problems and accidents like using an instrument which have not been cleaned yet. For disposables, the only thing that staffs need to do is ensure that there is adequate stock levels.

Improperly management of these waste could end up into leaks which may also lead to infection and contamination. Many think that disposable instruments are not environmental friendly at all. Because of this, the provided solution for the safety of the patients have been questioned about its disposal.

The solution that it provide is really helpful. However, since they are viewed as unfriendly to the environment, this solution has not been really recognized yet by many. There are companies who offer devices that are biodegradable plastic, which is believed to be a great answer to the problem. The cost efficient solution made in order to address the problem is to recycle them instead and not to just throw them away.




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