What happens to power tools that are used in surgeries?

I would guess that you couldn’t sanitize them for more surgeries, but I don’t know.

Do they destroy them or sell them?

3 Responses to “What happens to power tools that are used in surgeries?”

  • surfridergeek61:

    they probably sanitize them and reuse them because they are expensive.

  • G.:

    There are some weird questions on this thing..lol
    But good ones…I would say clean them then reuse.

  • Goldie:

    Odd question!
    I’m a surgeon… In general, the power tools are either electrically driven or (more commonly) driven by compressed air. The compressed air-driven equipment is entirely sterilizable (is that a word?) and is sterilized in the usual fashion using an autoclave – in effect a pressure cooker used to achieve very high pressures and temperature. It is then re-used.

    The equipment would be too expensive to discard though sometimes small parts like drill bits and the like might be disposable.

    Hope this helps…

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