Recovery of reprocessable medical devices in a sharps container

Details Recovery of reprocessable medical devices in a sharps container Recovery of reprocessable medical devices in a sharps container

2011-05-03

2011-05-03

Matthews, Terrell H (Department: 3653)

Classifying, separating, and assorting solids

Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...

Separating means

C209S702000, C209S492000, C209S617000, C209S630000, C422S022000, C422S028000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07934602

ABSTRACT:
A recovery device and method of use ensure that any reusable medical device that has been disposed of in a sharps container is recovered, cleaned, sterilized, and repackaged for reuse. In one embodiment, a sharps container and sorting surface are manipulated to rotate together and independently, so that the content of the sharps container are emptied onto the sorting surface, enabling an operator to manually, safely, efficiently, and timely retrieve reusable medical devices from the sorting surface and place these medical devices into a receptacle bin. The non-reusable contents are subsequently dumped into a waste bin, whose contents will subsequently be incinerated or otherwise destroyed. The operator of the recovery device is protected by a shield and an exhaust system that minimize the operator's exposure to airborne biohazardous toxins and enable the sorting to be done without injury to the operator from sharp medical devices.

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