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Reuse of hospital bedpans

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2021
Objectives: to evaluate the results of two methods of hospital bedpan reprocessing. Methods: cross-sectional study. Hospital bedpans containing a biological material contamination simulator or organic matter were submitted to manual cleaning followed by
Tamires Alessandra Mineli, Denise de Andrade, Simone de Godoy, Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes, Silvia Helena Tognoli, Leila Maria Marchi-Alves   +5 more
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Coming clean on reuse of endoscopic equipment [PDF]

Gut, 1998
See article on page304 Over the past decade, endoscopic accessories have evolved from reusable to disposable in many parts of the world. The impetus for this has been multifactorial and includes concerns of cross-contamination between patients because of inability to assure proper cleaning and the inevitable equipment deterioration that occurs with ...
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Knowledge of Dialyser Reuse Practice among Medical and Allied Healthcare Professionals Working in Haemodialysis Units: A Cross-sectional Study [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
Introduction: Dialyser reuse is commonly practised in resource-limited areas. It allows multiple uses of the same dialyser for one patient. While it is cost-effective and environmentally friendly, it requires strict safety protocols.
Shreya Gujar, Amita Digambar Dabholkar
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Uncovering high rates of unsafe injection equipment reuse in rural Cameroon: validation of a survey instrument that probes for specific misconceptions

Harm Reduction Journal, 2011
Background Unsafe reuse of injection equipment in hospitals is an on-going threat to patient safety in many parts of Africa. The extent of this problem is difficult to measure.
Reid Savanna R, Capo Mireille V, Alomba Fozao A, Ngem Bedes Y, Okwen Mbah P, Ewang Ebong C   +5 more
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Spatiotemporal distributions of surface ozone levels in China from 2005 to 2017: A machine learning approach

Environment International, 2020
In recent years, ground-level ozone has become a severe ambient pollutant in major urban areas of China, which has adverse impacts on population health. However, in-situ measurements of the ozone concentration before 2013 in China are quite scarce, which
Riyang Liu, Zongwei Ma, Yang Liu, Yanchuan Shao, Wei Zhao, Jun Bi   +5 more
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Reuse of haemodialysis equipment: convenience and cost effectiveness. [PDF]

BMJ, 1982
The shortage of resources for providing renal replacement makes it essential to reduce revenue costs wherever possible. Assuming that haemodialysis is likely to remain a mainstay of renal replacement, a policy of reusing the expensive disposable dialysers and blood lines could offer substantial cost savings.
H K, Banester, R D, Driscoll, R N, Greenwood, W R, Cattell   +3 more
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Análise dos custos do reprocessamento de pinças de uso único utilizadas em cirurgia vídeo-assistida Análisis de los costos del reprocesamiento de pinzas de único uso, utilizadas en cirugía video-asistida Cost analysis of reprocessing disposable forceps used in video-assisted surgery

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2006
O trabalho objetivou analisar os custos do reprocessamento de pinças de uso único, utilizadas em cirurgia vídeo-assistida. O reuso freqüente desses artigos é justificado pelo alto custo, entretanto, poucos estudos foram desenvolvidos sob esse enfoque ...
Eliane Molina Psaltikidis, Kazuko Uchikawa Graziano, Fábio Frezatti   +2 more
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Quantification and evaluation of atmospheric pollutant emissions from open biomass burning with multiple methods: a case study for the Yangtze River Delta region, China [PDF]

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2019
Air pollutant emissions from open biomass burning (OBB) in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) were estimated for 2005–2015 using three (traditional bottom-up, fire radiative power (FRP), and constraining) approaches, and the differences among those methods ...
Y. Yang, Y. Zhao, Y. Zhao
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REUSE AND REPAIR OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT

, 2022
The purpose of this paper is to analyze how circular economy procedures help reuse WEEE and identify the factors that led to the generation of waste electrical and electronic equipment during COVID-19. The methodology applied in this work is the method of qualitative analysis of the secondary data from the specialized literature, based on the criteria ...
DRUTA, Roxana-Maria, MUNTEANU, Radu-Adrian, LAKATOS, Elena-Simina, DAVID, Geanina-Maria, PACURARIU, Roxana-Lavinia   +4 more
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EVALUATING THE INFLUENCE OF SATELLITE OBSERVATION ON INVERSING NO_X EMISSION AT REGIONAL SCALE [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019
In order to explore the influence of satellite observation data on the top-down NOx estimates at regional scale, the top-down NOx emissions for Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region at 9 km spatial resolution were developed with Peking University Ozone
Y. Yang, Y. Zhao, Y. Zhao, L. Zhang
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