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jeudi 6 juin 2013

Disposable Surgical Supplies Mean Lower Insurance Premiums

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.

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.

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.

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 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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