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1.1 General This Standard provides recommended practices for emergency sterilization in hospitals and similar health care facilities. These recommendations are intended to increase assurance of sterility and to assist health care personnel in the proper use of processing equipment.
Notes:
(1) Similar health care facilities includes nursing homes, extended-care facilities, clinics, and medical and dental offices . For convenience, the shorter term hospital is used herein. (2) Emergency sterilization may be performed in various areas of the hospital, including the operating room, labour/delivery room, emergency/trauma room, and other areas where steam sterilizers ar e located. (3) Emergency sterilization, as used herein, is synonymous with flash sterilization and sterilization by the unwrapped method.
1.2 Inclusions This Standard specifically addresses
a) functional and physical design criteria for areas of ho spitals where emergency sterilization is carried out; b) staff qualifications, education, and other personnel considerations; c) sterilization processing procedures; d) the use and maintenance of gravity-displacement and prevacuum sterilizers for emergency sterilization; and e) quality assurance.
1.3 Exclusions The following are not addressed in this Standard:
(a) specific construction and performance criteria for steam sterilizers; (b) guidelines for steam sterilization by the wrapped method; and (c) table-top sterilizers.
1.4 The values given in SI (metric) units shall be considered the standard values. The values given in parentheses are included for information only.
1.5 In this Standard, the word shall indicates a mandatory requirement; should indicates a recommendation which is advised but is not mandatory. Notes accompanying clauses provide explanatory or informative material that is not properly a part of this Standard.
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