FDA Concludes Review of Applications for Reuse of Certain Medical Devices

Every time you go to a hospital for, say, throat surgery, there are many different instruments that the surgeon will use to, say, excise some polops on your larynx. With the millions of surgeries performed in the U.S., that can add up to a lot of plastic or metal that would need to be disposed of - a big waste in the eyes of many. These instruments, or Single-Use Devices (SUDs), can sometimes be reused, so long as they have been properly sterilized and cleaned, of course.