I thought that once those instruments were contaminated with that disease they had to be discarded because there is NO way they can be decontaminated.Since that disease is Prion based.Just like Mad cow disease.
“I thought that once those instruments were contaminated with that disease they had to be discarded... “
They didn’t know the person had CJD at the time of the surgery (6/11/09) until sometime this week.
They stopped using the instruments then for a time. However they now have re-sterilized the instruments and will continue to use them. (More info at some of the links in #10 on this thread.)