Operating instructions
11
operation
Minimum Sterilization Times
TIME (Minutes) ARTICLES
15 • Glassware, empty, inverted.
• Instruments, metal in covered or open tray, padded or unpadded.
• Needles, unwrapped.
• Pipettes, blood diluting, serological, volumetric, etc
• Tubing glass (6mm), (10mm) inverted
20 • Flasked solutions 75-250 ml.
• Instruments, metal combined with other materials in covered and/or padded tray.
• Instruments wrapped in double thickness muslin.
• Rubber gloves, catheters, drains, tubing, etc. Unwrapped or wrapped in muslin or paper.
30 • Brushes in dispensers, in cans of individually wrapped.
• Dressings, wrapped in paper or muslin, small packs only.
• Flasked solutions 500-1000 ml.
• Syringes, unassembled, individually packaged in muslin or paper.
• Needles, luer, individually packaged in glass tubes or paper.
45 • Flasked solutions 1500-2000 ml.