Sterilization
Using Sound to Sterilize Medical Instruments
Feb 01, 2003
Originally Published MDDI February 2003 R&D DIGEST Cunefare's test chamber has demonstrated that enhanced transient cavitation can kill bacterial...
Correlating Peel and Burst Tests for Sterile Medical Device Packages
Jan 01, 2003
  The ability to mathematically relate peel and burst test data could allow results to be taken more rapidly to production and quality control personnel...
Recovery Testing Terms
Oct 01, 2002
Originally Published MDDI October 2002 STERILIZATION VALIDATION Return to Article: Using Recovery Tests to Assess Bioburden Procedures...
Using Recovery Tests to Assess Bioburden Procedures
Oct 01, 2002
Originally Published MDDI October 2002 STERILIZATION VALIDATION By its nature, bioburden testing is an inexact science. The degree of inaccuracy in the testing...
Medical Device Sterilization: What Manufacturers Need to Know
Sep 01, 2002
Originally Published MDDI September 2002 STERILIZATION How do you decide on a sterilization procedure? What's new in sterilization? What's ahead? Seven experts...
Assessing the Effects of Sterilization Methods on Parylene Coatings
Aug 01, 2002
  COATING TECHNOLOGY Results of laboratory tests provide insight to the poststerilization characteristics of this common device-coating material. Lonny...
Dry-Heat Sterilization Methods Focus of Draft Standard
Aug 01, 2002
Originally Published MDDI August 2002 NEWS & ANALYSIS Gregg Nighswonger A proposed AAMI/American National Standard provides specific requirements and...
A Review of Selected Articles on the Safety of Reprocessing SUDs
May 01, 2002
Originally Published MDDI May 2002 SINGLE-USE DEVICES A Review of Selected Articles on the Safety of Reprocessing SUDs Of the literature cited by...
Estimating the Effects of EtO BIER-Vessel Operating Precision on D-Value Calculations
Apr 01, 2002
Originally Published MDDI April 2002 STERILIZATION D-values for several ranges of expected BIER-vessel performance have been calculated and compared with a...
Calculating Equivalent Time for Use in Determining the Lethality of EtO Sterilization Processes
Feb 01, 2002
Since its introduction more than 40 years ago, EtO processing has proven very effective for the sterilization of medical products.1 Approximately 45% of...