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To: Black Agnes

The lab equipment is not involved in patient care. It is used for diagnosis. Patient samples come to the equipment, nothing (except the diagnosis) goes the other way. Only lab workers ever touch the machines; physicians *might* use the machines if they are doing research, but otherwise probably never see them.

The only material that, as far as I know, cannot be reliably decontaminated is anything contaminated by prions. Ebola is actually pretty easy to kill... simple bleach will do it.

Hospitals reuse stuff all the time, after sterilizing it. I have never seen a hospital get sued for the practice of sterilizing and reusing, for example, surgical tools.


3,198 posted on 10/06/2014 7:44:46 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

It is in the hospital. Patients are in the hospital.

It won’t be allowed back.

It will be written off and destroyed.

Lawyers will never allow it back in the door.

Bet the farm on that.


3,199 posted on 10/06/2014 7:45:42 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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