Recovery of reprocessable medical devices in a sharps container

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B - Operations, Transporting

07

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B07C 7/04 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2666049

Reprocessable medical devices that have been disposed of in a sharps container are recovered, disinfected or sterilized, sorted, and packed for reprocessing in a generally continuous process. In one embodiment, either a sharps container or at least a portion of its contents is successively and controllably conveyed, either manually or automatically, through a plurality of processing stations that are configured to perform different operations. The operations performed by the processing stations can include, for example, detecting and identifying contents, cleaning and disinfecting, opening the sharps containers, separating and sorting their contents, and disposal of contents that are non-reprocessable. Reprocessable medical devices can be sorted by type as they move along on a conveyor.

L'invention concerne des dispositifs médicaux retransformables qui ont été évacués dans un conteneur pour objets tranchants. Ces dispositifs sont récupérés, désinfectés ou stérilisés, triés et emballés en vue de leur retransformation dans un processus d'ordinaire continu. Dans un mode de réalisation, le conteneur pour objets tranchants ou au moins une partie de son contenu est transporté successivement et de façon contrôlé, soit manuellement, soit automatiquement, traversant plusieurs stations de transformation conçues pour exécuter différentes opérations. Ces opérations peuvent consister, par exemple, à détecter et à identifier le contenu, à nettoyer et à désinfecter, à ouvrir les conteneurs pour objets tranchants, à séparer et à trier leurs contenus, et à éliminer les contenus qui sont non retransformables. Les dispositifs médicaux retransformables peuvent être triés par type à mesure qu'ils progressent sur la bande transporteuse.

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