Too hot to handle: how quickly do surgical instruments cool sufficiently to use safely following sterilisation using the Medical Device Decontamination Capability (Forward)?

Autor:	D Roper, A McClean, C J Hand
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Medical device Medical treatment Computer science Current practice Working temperature General Medicine Human decontamination Safe handling Reliability engineering
Zdroj:	Journal of The Royal Naval Medical Service. 104:87-92
ISSN:	2634-4920 0035-9033
Popis:	The Role 2 Basic medical treatment facility deploys with the Medical Device Decontamination Capability (MDDC) (Forward) to sterilise re-usable surgical instruments. After use, the instrument sets are placed in a wire basket, unwrapped and sterilised using MDDC (Forward). The instrument sets are taken out of the steriliser at 69°C but need to cool before reaching a safe handling temperature. If the instruments are needed immediately for surgery, current practice is to pour water over the instruments to speed the cooling process, although it is not known how long instruments take to reach a safe working temperature range. We compared the current standard practice of cooling against four other methods in order to establish the optimum technique.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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