Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Disposable Surgical Supplies Prevent Deadly Infections

By Rena Hudson


Back before hospitals used disposable surgical supplies during operations and other procedures there were a lot of reported cases of infections. Hospitals faced a great deal of lawsuits because of these post-operation infections. Many of them turned out to be deadly for some people as well. Not something that a hospital operations team wants to deal with.

When these infections happened they usually ended up being the result of utensils and tools that were not properly cleaned or sanitized like they should have been. They all have specific rules and procedures that crews and staff need to follow in order to make sure that these items were properly cleaned, but sometimes shortcuts may have been taken.

This was also the case for smaller, independent offices. Small family practice and specialty offices were also facing litigation because of mistakes made with the cleaning process of surgical tools. Even though they spent millions on training those whose job it was to clean the tools, people were still getting sick.

They spent a lot of time and a lot of money to try and find out why this was happening. But then they decided that it did not matter why it was happening, it was better to just make the change and go with an easy solution. Using disposable surgical supplies would solve most of the problems, whatever they were.

Hospitals grabbed this solution quickly. They would save money in not having to train people to do a job they were failing at anyway. They saw that they would also save in cleaning chemicals as well. This would save tons in overhead and then when they consider the amount saved in lawsuits it was another easy choice to make. They would go to the disposable tools and they would do it nationwide.

The smaller offices did the same. They, unlike the larger hospitals, could not afford malpractice lawsuits. One such case could put the office out of business. These often resulted because someone ended up dying due to an infection. These infections happened very quickly after a surgery and while most could be treated but they would take lots of powerful antibiotics.

Hospitals all over the country eventually caught on and started to do the same thing. Pretty soon it became an industry standard and then it spread to all the other medical professionals. Doctors offices all over also started using these because it meant all the same things for them as well. They could not absorb the financial losses that a hospital could either.

Disposable surgical supplies have really saved the medical industry a lot of headaches all over. Millions of dollar, probably billions of revenue saved in lawsuits that were no longer taking place and money saved in overhead. These new procedures made things easier for everyone from nurses to administrators. When they did not have to pay so much in training employees to properly clean these tools they no longer had to worry about them making mistakes.




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