One Use or Two?

Sterilzing these devices also breaks down the devices its self.....even stainless.

You have raised a largely ignored issue, the "green" or carbon footprint, when looking at the debate of producing single use medical equipment over reusable (aka Life Cycle). The majority of single use surgical equipment has been produced in India, Pakistan and China. The bottom line has been profits & cost, both for the end-user and the producer. With the new mandates of carbon footprinting as a cost , GE(medical equipment giant) has heavily invested in "carbon footprinting"... and ....the reality of waining global resources (especially in petroleum by products used in the chemical and synthetics industries) for medical equipment, has started a ripple in the thinking by corporations. The Asian, European (primarily German & French), and US medical device producers will be forced to recalculate the cost of business based on carbon footprints and resource scarcity for design considerations in Life Cycle of medical equipment.