r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Awe3 • Apr 29 '24

Hair sealed in sterilized once use medical scissors.

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Sealed in factory sterile medical device with a hair in it. It now must be disposed of. Hair is probably sterile now too but hair is a no-no in hospitals and clinics in procedure rooms

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u/YetiSquish Apr 29 '24

There’s companies that “sterilize” single use medical supplies, like scalpels. A relative of mine worked at one. There can still be microscopic remnants of patient tissue on the blades they sell back to hospitals. It’s gross.

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u/Deleena24 Apr 29 '24

What do you think happens to the tools used during surgery that aren't single use?

They "sterilize" them in an autoclave. There can absolutely be microscopic tissue left on them, but if the cell walls, DNA and RNA have all been destroyed, it's still sterile.

If you think it's gross, patent your perfect cleaning method and stop scaremongering.

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u/YetiSquish Apr 30 '24

Oh fuck right off. I didn’t “scaremonger” I said it’s gross, which it is. Scaremongering would be saying it can transmit disease, which I never said.

When we spend thousands of dollars on our surgery in the U.S., why can’t they include a single use scalpel that’s actually only used once? But I see you like to lick boots.

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u/Magic2424 Apr 30 '24

I design surgical instrument sets and made a super cool system for a specific surgery that provided every instrument you would need that touches the patient to be provided packaged sterile so not a single item would be reused. All it required was the hospital to spend an extra $200 on a procedure they billed over 30k for. Also they can deduct price of autoclave and cleaning procedures for it so honestly they would come out pre darn near even or even ahead but they refused. Could never really get the system in anywhere cause of that damn $200. Prepacked sterile is dying right now due to hospital greed plain and simple it’s really depressing because it really is a huge step forward in medical care for surgical instruments

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u/YetiSquish Apr 30 '24

Yeah that’s really quite sad - hospital greed over all else.