Medical

Advanced Technology Addresses Sterilization
Challenges in Medical Instrumentation

OVERVIEW
The need for an alternative method to sterilize medical instruments has been acknowledged by the FDA and CDC for decades, as evidenced by the increase in disease transmission resulting from the failure to remove microbial contaminants in increasingly complex medical instruments and devices. For example, flexible endoscopes and orthopedic implants present sterilization challenges due to their complex construction, the inclusion of electrical and mechanical components, and material sensitivities to thermal or chemical sterilants.

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Assuring sterility in the reprocessing of reusable medical instruments is vital to protecting patient safety. With the growing concern of inadequate cleaning between patient uses that can result in Health care-Associated Infections (HAIs) it is imperative that the sterile processing of instruments be sufficient to overcome cleaning inadequacies. RapidHeat HVHA Sterilization has been proven to penetrate and neutralize encapsulated or retained bioburden and neutralize/inactivate microorganisms.

Ambulatory surgical/patient treatment centers and hospital “Immediate-Use” processing departments are benefited immensely by the use of RapidHeat Tabletop Sterilizers to provide this assurance.