In response to socioeconomic pressure to cut budgets in medicine, single-use surgical instruments are often reprocessed despite potential biological hazard.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, 54 Kawahara-cho, Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan. masakoba@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp