SOME of the surgical tools introduced this year to help prevent transmission
of vCJD have caused surgeons serious problems, Â鶹´«Ã½ has learned.
The tool, which is thrown away after a single use, is a pair of electrical
forceps for heat-sealing blood vessels after tonsillectomy. The NHS called for
disposable versions in January on the advice of Britain’s Spongiform
Encephalopathy Advisory Committee. Hospitals bought them from suppliers in a
number of countries. Â鶹´«Ã½ has established that some were actually
reusable devices made in nations where cheap labour makes them inexpensive
enough to be disposable.
Surgeons who attempted to use…
