CONTROLLING COSTS. AT WHAT COST?
Study published in Surgical Endoscopy raises questions about the ability to effectively clean and sterilize with reprocessed vessel- sealing devices1
1 OUT OF 165 REPROCESSED DEVICES
OF REPROCESSED DEVICES
96%
FAILED ACROSS A MIX OF 4 DIFFERENT TESTS THAT CHECKED FOR ORGANIC MATERIAL1,‡
GREW BACTERIA
IN CULTURE. AND THE LEVEL WAS
166X FDA GUIDELINES.1,†
WHAT CAN WE DO?
Let’s start by better understanding the science and using it to guide decisions. Then let’s talk about your clinical and economic goals — and how we can achieve them, together. Give your Medtronic advanced energy specialist a call today or call us and we’ll connect you.
Read the full study here.
† Sterility assurance level of 10-6 accepted by the FDA as laid out in the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) standards ST67 and TIR 12 for devices contacting normally sterile tissue.
‡ The combination of failed tests included visual inspection, optical and scanning electron microscopy, hemoglobin detection, and sterility testing.
§ Medtronic will not perform complaint investigations on competitive devices.
VALUE BEYOND
THE PRODUCT
When you partner with Medtronic and purchase our OEM LigaSure™ devices, you get:
∙ Proven, reliable device
performance backed by our post-market quality assurance activities§
∙ Optional risk-sharing and salesforce
indemnification programsΩ ∙ Technical expertise from our
Medtronic does not manufacture, distribute, warrant, or indemnify reprocessed LigaSure™
vessel
sealing devices. To quickly determine if a LigaSure™
device
from Medtronic is inauthentic, check the packaging, the product, and the plug. If there’s a logo other than Covidien™ Valleylab™, it’s not an authentic device from Medtronic.
or
Ω Optional risk-sharing and indemnification programs include the LigaSure™
and Project Zero collections programs.
1. Chivukula, S.R., Lammers, S. & Wagner, J. Assessing organic material on single-use vessel sealing devices: a comparative study of reprocessed and new LigaSure™ devices. Surg Endosc (2020).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-020-07969-8.
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