Improvements in the sterilization of products and sanitary and medical-surgical articles. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

摘要

Improvements in the sterilization of sanitary and medical-surgical products and articles, essentially characterized by the fact that they are put into practice by arranging such products or articles inside the corresponding container, which is made of impermeable material, preferably of plastic material, and that adopts the general structure of transparent, translucent or opaque box or boat, introducing the same together with its contents into a critically sterile enclosure, which is subject, preferably, to the action of germicidal lamps and in which it has an entrance an outside air stream, which is filtered and sterilized by other lamps of the said type or equivalent means and penetrates that room at a higher pressure than that which prevails in it to prevent the penetration, through uncontrolled points, of the contaminated outside air, exposing said package, either open or semi-closed, to the action of a vapor or gas destined ructor (pressure saturated water vapor, vapor from other liquids, ozone or other microbicidal gas) contained in an appropriate chamber; it is also necessary to use germicidal lamps or penetrating or deep radiation to obtain the destruction of the pathogenic germs and spores (anaerobes, aerobes and fungi) that could take the contents of the container with them, being able to be added to the product or article in question, and always within the same sterile enclosure, an impregnating or complementary substance, with all of which the process is concluded with the exit to the exterior of the closed container and with its perfectly sterile interior. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)