The old medical instruments will be used in clinical after replacing parts, disinfection and the new packaging and this has been a practice in most of countries. In fact, old medical equipments use circularly after renovation and it has been the trend in the countries which medical treatment expenses are not enough. Even in America, the proportion of hospitals using regeneration medical instrument have increased gradually.

 According to medical report, there is only 25% hospitals using regeneration one-time medical instrument products in 2002 in America. In 2009, the figure has achieved to 45% and proved that there are more and more hospitals using regeneration one-time medical instrument products. In addition, using these products can save one hundred and thirty thousands medical funds and reduce 4.3 million tons of medical waste.

The government report ensure the security

In general, the advantages of using regeneration one-time medical instrument products are more than disadvantages, but for patient, whether there is security question or not? According to one report of America government in 2009, the current regulations of FDA don’t encourage hospital to use regeneration one-time medical instrument products, but FDA managers have done an investigation and statistics for regeneration one-time medical instrument products which is used or have been used. It proved that side effects of regeneration one-time medical instrument products are not more than using new one-time medical products.

This report ensure the security of using regeneration medical instrument products. FDA officials admited that only hospitals disinfect for recovery one-time medical products and can use again.

On the other hand, for electronic diagnosis instrument, because its price is very expensive and exchange key parts to continuous using, such as Computed Tomography, MRI, Medical-x-ray machine, color ultrasonic system and so on.

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