Tweezers

[chirpychippy]

I had my stitches removed this morning at my local GP Practise.

Took approximately 30 seconds. Nurse used a pair of Tweezers & Scissors.

Both items are single use. Tweezers are £2.00 each, scissors were already in the bin.

What the hell is going on, what happened to sanitising stuff, is everything single use nowadays, no wonder the NHS is on its knees..on a positive, i can remove splinters with them.

 

[JohnD]

Do you know how to sterilise away CJD?

 

[chirpychippy]

Do you know how to sterilise away CJD?

No I don't, could you explain please?

 

[JohnD]

Basically, you can't.

It can survive, and infect, after boiling, alcohol, benzene, and being pickled for a hundred years in Formaldehyde.

That's why surgical instruments and other devices are only used on one patient.

Prion diseases are like that.

 

[chirpychippy]

Basically, you can't.

It can survive, and infect, after boiling, alcohol, benzene, and being pickled for a hundred years in Formaldehyde.

That's why surgical instruments and other devices are only used on one patient.

Prion diseases are like that.

I presume then they aren't recycled either, unless melting in a furnace kills the bacteria?

It's interesting to delve into an otherwise naive observation.

Thanks.

 

[Notch7]

I presume then they aren't recycled either, unless melting in a furnace kills the bacteria?

It's interesting to delve into an otherwise naive observation.

Thanks.

Lots of stuff the NHS use come in a pre packed bag I’ve noticed, my guess is it’s quicker, more hygienic and probably cheaper.

 

[JohnD]

It's not a bacteria, and the vector seems to be smaller than a virus.

Unless there have been more developments, nobody has been able to identify and isolate the thing causing the disease

But it travels and grows like an infection.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Imagine the bill, compensation if someone picked up bacteria from a "steralised" set that wasnt

 

[gas112]

https://www.hdft.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/sterile-services-leaflet.pdf

 

[Stivino]

CJD instrument sterilisation

 

[Justin Passing]

Fascinating things, Prions. Archaea too - look em up.
Prions work conceptually a bit like something magnetic. Whatever they touch becoming magnetic - pass it on.

 

[chirpychippy]

CJD instrument sterilisation

The last time I uploaded an excerpt from the Web I got annihilated by this very group, once bitten an all that. Oddly the Web is full of contradicting facts or fiction.

 

[aveatry]

It can survive, and infect, after boiling, alcohol, benzene, and being pickled for a hundred years in Formaldehyde.

Nah its quite harmless - remember this anyone

 

[MNW67]

Nah its quite harmless - remember this anyone

That's made me want a burger!

 

[transam]

So do dentists throw away all there instruments after every patient ???

( extractions etc etc )

I doubt it ???