Ever stop and look around during a doctor or hospital visit? Even a cursory look reveals dozens of medical instruments and hygienic tools made with plastics: protective examination gloves, sterile bandages and gauze, syringes that help prevent infection, IV tubes and bags that guard against contamination—all made possible by plastics. Frankly, plastics so pervade the…
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Plastics help save lives in the doctor’s office and the hospital emergency room. Whether its medical supplies such as IV bags, syringes, and sterile wrappers or equipment like incubators and dialysis machines, doctors rely every day on plastics. Safety gear made of plastics can also protect you from avoid medical emergencies.
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