by Randal Chinnock
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1) If you invent a novel reusable medical device that must be sterile but sterilization between uses isn’t practical – perhaps because it contains optics or complex mechanics, or will just take too long — it will not succeed. Disposable sterile barriers between the patient and device enable the success of devices that are impractical to sterilize
2) An added benefit of this is that disposable barriers prevent cross-infection from one user to another. For example, to prevent the kinds of cross-infections that occurred at Johns Hopkins some years ago that resulted from improperly reprocessed colonoscopes
3) If a device is only used once, it is assured that it will be “new” every time