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Incorrect use
Liquids must not be sterilized either in open or in pressure-sealed containers.
The following products are not suitable for sterilization:
Staff requirements
Routine operating staff
Commissioning and routine operations may be performed only by specially trained
personnel. These must possess the requisite knowledge for correct use (DIN
58946-6) of the sterilizer, including routine evaluation of the sterilization result
(release).
Supervisory and training staff
Supervisory and monitoring tasks are restricted to personnel possessing
comprehensive subject-matter expertise. They must be able to perform tasks
involving responsibility and to make decisions. In addition, they must be able to
train the routine operating staff and to pass on to them the requisite knowledge and
experience. This in turn presupposes suitable training as trainers (cf. DIN 58946-6,
Sterilization, Steam Sterilizers, Section 4.2).
The tasks of the supervisory personnel include:
Conventions
Indicates a list.
♦
Indicates an operating step.
Indicates alternatives.
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1 User considerations
• Wooden items,
• Bonded parts,
• Plastic materials sensitive to hot water (e.g. screw tops),
• Electrical equipment,
• Food,
• General or hospital waste (e.g. C waste),
• Items containing the CJD pathogen,
• Medical drugs,
• Syringes filled with liquid,
• Metering equipment, unless their suitability for steam sterilization is
specifically mentioned,
• Anhydrous oils, fats and paraffins,
• Pulverized and dust-like matter.
• Daily release of the sterilizer after evaluating the results of the
mandatory daily tests (see Chapter 8.2.2).
• Deciding on the release of non-approved sterile packs.
• Evaluation of operating situations and process where performance
values lie outside the prescribed limits or threshold limit values and
necessary measures where required.
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