Nerve stimulation Implant cleaning services

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I am part of a small medical device company that manufactures nerve stimulation implants. Every once in a while, we need to replace the implant. Does anyone know of a 3rd party that will "clean" the removed implants prior to my company conducting root cause analysis?
 
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Google is your friend. Suggest you search on "medical device decontamination services". I found at least three hits of service provider companies. HTH
 

planB

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claboranti,

would it be out of reach that the explanting healthcare facility decontaminates your device prior to returning it to you?

Hope this helps,
 

Raisin picker

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would it be out of reach that the explanting healthcare facility decontaminates your device prior to returning it to you?
That would of course be easiest. I tried that way once. Our partners, university hospitals mostly, would have had the technical ability to decontaminate, but they did not have the procedures established and could not provide documentation. And of course, they were not willing to do that for a low volume device. We ended up receiving the explants in 60 % alcohol and performing the decontamination ourselves. That was basically throwing it in some cleaning agent (can't remember what exactly). But that was really low volume, maybe 5 to 10 per year.
And to answer the original question: No, we never looked for such a service externally.
 
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