Lessard M R, Trépanier C A, Gourdeau M, Denault P H
Department of Anesthesiology, Hôpital de l'Enfant-Jésus, Québec.
Can J Anaesth. 1988 Nov;35(6):567-9. doi: 10.1007/BF03020341.
In many operating theatres, it is common practice to reuse disposable plastic syringes with the same needles for several injections to different patients during the same day. This practice could lead to bacterial contamination of these syringes, making them an infection hazard to patients. We did a microbiologic survey of 100 of the most frequently reused syringes in our operating rooms and a control group of 100 single-use syringes. Only three of the syringes were contaminated in each group. None of the patients exposed to the syringes having a positive culture showed any sign of sepsis. Our data suggest that reusing plastic syringes is not associated with an increase in the incidence of bacterial contamination. However, contamination of the syringes by patients' blood, with the risk of cross-infections, remains a possibility and further studies are needed to evaluate this potential hazard.
在许多手术室，常见的做法是在同一天将一次性塑料注射器与同一根针头重复用于给不同患者进行多次注射。这种做法可能导致这些注射器受到细菌污染，使其对患者构成感染风险。我们对手术室中100个最常被重复使用的注射器以及100个一次性注射器的对照组进行了微生物学调查。每组中只有三个注射器被污染。接触培养结果呈阳性的注射器的患者均未出现任何败血症迹象。我们的数据表明，重复使用塑料注射器与细菌污染发生率的增加无关。然而，注射器被患者血液污染并存在交叉感染风险的可能性仍然存在，需要进一步研究来评估这种潜在危害。
