@article{Z. P. F. Pinto_Massini_2021, place={Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil}, title={Legal and biological safety of legal reprocessing of medicalhospital materials}, volume={19}, url={/bjhbs/article/view/79}, DOI={10.12957/bjhbs.2020.59717}, abstractNote={<p>Introduction: Procedures using disposable materials in the health area began to be performed, for example in cardiac catheterization, which has a high prevalence of morbidity and mortality. Objective: To justify and reaffirm the reuse of sin-gle-use catheters in surgeries, as it is justified by the economic benefit gained from replacing the purchase of new materials by reusing them. Materials and methods: A bibliographic and documentary narrative review was carried out using LILACS and NCBI as database, with previously defined filters and selection criteria. Resultados: Decontamination, disinfection, conditioning, sterilization, and quality control tests are critical stages and, therefore, require training. Each of these stages also has characteristic risks, which must be minimized. In order to ensure the quality of the catheter reuse process, after the clean-ing and sterilization process, techniques beyond microscopic and visual evaluation of the device are required. A diversity of techniques is addressed so that the quality of the process is assured. Although legislation and supervision are divergent around the world, many countries choose to adopt reprocess-ing with economic justification in most cases. The reuse of hospital devices involves several physico-chemical processes, which must be performed with quality and safety. Conclusion: The need for greater rigor in the norms and guidelines that address this practice is clear and urgent, as well as the greater intensity and rigidity of the responsible inspection agencies. The use of luminol as an indicator of organic contaminants may generate a false positive result. Therefore, 3Mâ„¢ Clean-Trace â„¢ is the best instrument found in the world market to ensure that the material that has been reused is free of organic waste, and thus fit for use in hospitals.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û}, author={Z. P. F. Pinto, Paula and Massini, Nelson}, year={2021}, month={Jan.}, pages={130–141} }