LIFETIME OF REUSABLE SYRINGES AND NEEDLES - A FIELD-STUDY

Authors
KOFOED PEL RAHMAN AKSM BAIRAGEE M NIELSEN B
Citation
Pel. Kofoed et al., LIFETIME OF REUSABLE SYRINGES AND NEEDLES - A FIELD-STUDY, Tropical and geographical medicine, 45(3), 1993, pp. 140-141
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Tropical Medicine","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Journal title
Tropical and geographical medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
00413232
Volume
45
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
140 - 141
Database
ISI
SICI code
0041-3232(1993)45:3<140:LORSAN>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
For planning of supplies and costs it is important for an immunization unit to know how many times reusable syringes and needles can be used . A field study found that BCG syringes, which had their rubber seals replaced once, could be used at least 150 times, and DPT syringes more than 200 times even when sterilized in tap water with a hardness of 8 8 mg calciumoxyde per liter. Needles could be used 100 times and when resharpened several times even more.