MedCity News October 21, 2022
Designing devices for re-use remains a more resilient solution for supply disruption in healthcare devices. But until manufacturers consistently pursue this strategy, single-use device reprocessing can provide the benefits associated with a circular economy solution.
Supply chain resilience has become a key concept in healthcare today. This is because the pandemic (and the post-pandemic) realities of securing necessary supplies have proven to be problematic. More and more often, electrophysiology lab managers are seeing backorders or limited availability for key devices used in electrophysiology procedures.
Such disruptions are devastating to the EP lab: If a key mapping catheter is missing, the procedure either has to be cancelled, or the physician has to use a different device, possibly a device s/he is...
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