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Single-use medical devices include any medical equipment, instrument or apparatus having the ability to only be used once in a hospital or clinic and then disposed. The Food and Drug Administration defines this as any device entitled by its manufacturer that it is intended use is for one single patient and one procedure only. [ 1 ]
The central sterile services department (CSSD), also called sterile processing department (SPD), sterile processing, central supply department (CSD), or central supply, is an integrated place in hospitals and other health care facilities that performs sterilization and other actions on medical devices, equipment and consumables; for subsequent ...
Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN) is a system of internationally agreed generic descriptors used to identify all medical device products. This nomenclature is a naming system for products which include those used for the diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of disease or injury in humans.
The practice of reusing medical devices labeled for only one use began in hospitals in the late 1970s. [8] After a thorough review by the U.S. FDA in 1999 and 2000, [8] the agency released a guidance document for reprocessed SUDs that began regulating the sale of these reprocessed devices on the market, [9] under the condition that third-party reprocessors would be treated as the manufacturer ...
Autoclave tape is only a marker that steam and heat have activated the dye. The marker on the tape does not indicate complete sterility. A more difficult challenge device, named the Bowie-Dick device after its inventors, is also used to verify a full cycle. This contains a full sheet of chemical indicator placed in the center of a stack of paper.
Device Name Specialty Description External link (if no internal link) ... Fitting to ensure leak-free connection in medical fluid administration systems [5]
A fire piston, a fire starting device; A squirt, in the form of a large syringe, one of the first firefighting devices in history used to squirt water onto the burning fuel. [39] Autoinjector, a device to ease injection, e.g. by the patient or other untrained personnel. Hippy Sippy
Medical halogen penlight: to see into the eye, natural orifices, etc. and to test for pupillary light reflex, etc. Medical ultrasound: to create an image of internal body structures Nasogastric tube: for nasogastric suction or the introduction of food or drugs into the body Nebulizer: to produce aerosols of drugs to be administered by ...