Disposable Surgical Supplies Prevent Deadly Infections

By Rena Hudson


When people hear about disposable surgical supplies they usually think about a surgery but that is not always the case. Surgical supplies cover a wide variety of tools and items that can be used for various things. These are especially valuable for home care patients or people who are home bound because of their sickness.

There are people who stay in hospital beds all day long and need to have various bandages changed or other things done by a home nurse. When this is the case disposable surgical supplies come in handy. It would be very difficult if these items were having to be cleaned and sanitized after use because typically people do not carry such items in their home.

When shortcuts are taken that is when people end up skipping steps and these skipped steps could be very deadly to people. These infections are never something that you want to catch, they are not anything like getting an infection on a cut. These are staph infections and they require the strongest antibiotics and need to be caught very early otherwise it could mean death.

Small doctors offices also use them as well. Even though they could have cleaning stations installed in their offices, there is really no reason to. The ready to use items are cheap, easily accessible, and can just be tossed after use. There is nothing wrong with using these for procedures because they all work just as well as anything else.

Taking these items and using them in hospitals is also a good idea and one that is taking place everywhere. When hospitals have their surgical centers supplied with these they actually can save money. They have run operational tests to see what would be cheaper. They used to have all the supplies put into a large container and brought into a sanitizing center.

The operating costs of these centers were very high. The employees who would need training and then need to be paid would cost the hospitals a lot of money. These were funds they did not have many times. Then they would also have the cost of maintaining the cleaning chemicals. All of these costs went into their overhead and made it significantly higher.

When they started programs to try using the disposable ones they quickly found how much they could save. No longer would they need to maintain a large staff of people who were trained and qualified to clean the utensils. In addition they removed the threat of infection from tools that might not be cleaned properly.

Disposable surgical supplies have revolutionized both the hospital environment and the home care environment. They have made it possible for hospitals to save money and to eliminate the risk of infection from improperly cleaned utensils. They also gave home care nurses an easier way to care for their patients. They would no longer need to bring extra cleaning supplies with them or extra tools. They would sometimes need to bring two of everything but not no more.




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