Disposal of instruments not in use anymore
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What does your organization do when you have an instrument that has been discontinued and needs to be disposed of.
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On a device that the manufacturer will not take back, I'm expected to delete any patient data/memory/results, disinfect it and disable it in some way making it unusable. Then I dispose of it in regular trash if it does not contain an internal reagent source. I don't currently have devices that do have reagents internal to the instrument but if that were the case, I'd have to schedule a pickup with our institution's Environmental Health & Safety office.