Cleaning is critical for sterilisation to be effective; this has been well proven and does not require further evidencing. However, warns Pawel de Sternberg Stojalowski, founder and managing director at decontamination specialist Aseptium, the complexity of the cleaning process itself, measuring the effectiveness and the quality of cleaning is quite another matter.
Cleaning processes are complex in their own right, but it gets really tricky when we start talking about instruments with difficult to clean features like narrow gaps, crevices, internal mechanisms, linkages or long hollow channels.
The cleaning process depends on many more variables than the sterilisation process–therefore cleaning requires a closer examination. We will look at the critical elements of the cleaning process and its verification.
Why do we have a problem with cleaning?
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