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vCJD
It
is possible that variant and sporadic CJD may be transmitted on surgical
instruments used on patients incubating the disease. For this reason
the Department
of Health has set up an expert advisory group to advise health authorities
and trusts on managing incidents in which an invasive medical procedure
has been carried
out on someone who later develops CJD.
The CJD Incidents Panel issued a consultation paper in
October 2001 outlining the main risk areas as Neurosurgery and procedures
involving the optic nerve. They also recommended that for these high
risk areas instruments with a lumen should be single use wherever
possible, as it is impossible to guarantee their safe decontamination
(annex 2).
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