Revision Lecture Flashcards
Daily tests WD?
Check spray arms rotate
Check filter for debris
Check door seal
Check chemical level
Verify condition of load carrier
Disinfection temp of first cycle (ACT)
Load patterns?
Clip trays properly alligned
No overlap or shadowing of instruments
Hinge instruments open at hinge
Assemblies disassembled
Don’t overload
What checked at inspection?
Identify any contamination present
- manual or ultrasonic if so
Verify instrument still functional
Conditions for manual cleaning?
Full PPE
Water <35 degrees
PH neutral chemical
Long handled soft bristle brush
Immersion or non immersion
- manufacturers recommendations
- handpieces not submerged
Conditions for ultrasonic bath?
Filled to required level
Chemicals added
De gas cycle first
Sae loading directions
- No handpieces
Sterilisation requirements for time temp pressure?
2.25 bar
134-137 degrees
3 minutes
Daily steriliser tests?
Check door seal
Check load carrier
Check chamber for debris
Fill and drain water
Bowie dick test
Weekly tests sterilisers?
Air leakage tests
Air detector function test
Daily tests
Type n steriliser? What types of instruments?
Gravity displacement
- purified water added and heated
- only rigid steel and no wrapped instruments
- no instruments with lumens
Type B steriliser? Instruments?
Vacuum capable
- creates vacuum then steam rapidly drawn in
- can process wrapped instruments
- instruments with urns
- porous loads too
Differences after processing between sterilisers?
Type B = instruments sterile at point of use
Type N = instruments have been sterilised
