Trend of Re-Manufacturing Single-use Devices

Re-use of devices in cardiology.

The Committee for Scientific and Clinical Initiatives, with the approval of the Board of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), has initiated Policy Conferences in the European Heart House. The purpose of such conferences is to provide a forum for debating matters of importance for the practice of cardiology. Subjects to be addressed are those where knowledge is still insufficient for the cr...

Recent Trend of Display Devices

A trend of recent R & D on display devices, especially flat panel display, are reviewed. In addition, historical growing process of liquid crystal display (LCD) is reviewed from both sides of a simple matrix LCD technology and an active matrix LCD technology, and a trend of recent advanced technology is also discussed.

The ethics of reusing single-use devices.

The topic of reprocessing medical devices labelled as single-use items is something of an ethical quagmire. The only thing clear about this issue, it seems, is that it is complicated and encompasses many areas, including patient safety, fiscal responsibility and environmental stewardship. “The reuse of SUIs [single-use items] is an extraordinarily complex issue,” Alice Moszczynski, a registered...

Reuse of single-use critical medical devices.

FDA: reuse of single-use devices.

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