在内分泌学中重复使用一次性设备:一项审查
Rudra Prasad Ghorai1, Rajeev Kumar1
1Department of Urology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Journal of endourology
|October 27, 2023
概括
再加工和重复使用一次性医疗器械 (SUDs) 可以节省成本和环境效益. 然而,关于重复使用的SUD的安全性和有效性的数据有限,需要监管和建立再加工标准.
科学领域:
- 医疗设备再加工 医疗设备再加工
- 内分泌学安全安全性 内分泌学安全性
- 医疗保健经济学 医疗经济学
背景情况:
- 由于医疗保健成本上升和一次性使用后缺乏明显的磨损,一次性医疗器械 (SUD) 越来越多地被重新处理和重复使用.
- SUDs的范围已经扩大到除了导管等简单设备之外,还包括复杂而昂贵的设备,如柔性内镜和能源设备.
- 重复使用SUD引发了有关感染传播,患者安全和设备有效性的重大担忧.
研究的目的:
- 审查消毒过程,成本效益,潜在危害和与SUD在内分泌学中的再加工和重用相关的法律地位.
- 综合当前关于SUD重复使用的优点和缺点的知识.
- 确定在SUD再加工实践中需要监管标准的需要.
主要方法:
- 在PubMed,Embase和Cochrane图书馆进行了全面的文献搜索,寻找1970年至2023年3月间发表的文章.
- 搜索术语包括"重复使用"",一次性设备"",一次性医疗设备"",一次性设备的再加工"",内分泌学"以及与成本,安全,杀菌和法律地位相关的关键词.
- 在线资源也被用来收集有关不同国家的节省成本,设备故障,消毒和法律方面的信息.
主要成果:
- 再加工和重复使用SUD带来了财务,环境和实际的优势,潜在的医疗成本节省是主要的驱动因素.
- 重复使用医疗设备可以有助于减少有毒的可生物降解废物.
- 关于再加工的SUD的安全性和有效性的数据非常稀缺.
结论:
- 重复使用一次性医疗器械提供了令人信服的财务和环境效益.
- 关于重复使用的SUD的安全性和有效性的数据仍然存在重大差距.
- 制定明确的再处理标准和法规对于确保患者安全和减轻与SUD重复使用相关的潜在并发症至关重要.
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