Effects on instruments of the World Health Organization-recommended protocols for decontamination after possible exposure to transmissible spongiform encephalopathy-contaminated tissue
✍ Scribed by Brown, Stanley A. ;Merritt, Katharine ;Woods, Terry O. ;Busick, Deanna N.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 190 KB
- Volume
- 72B
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9304
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
It has been recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that rigorous decontamination protocols be used on surgical instruments that have been exposed to tissue possibly contaminated with Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD). This study was designed to examine the effects of these protocols on various types of surgical instruments. The most important conclusions are: (1) autoclaving in 1__N__ NaOH will cause darkening of some instruments; (2) soaking in 1__N__ NaOH at room temperature damages carbon steel but not stainless steel or titanium; (3) soaking in chlorine bleach will badly corrode gold‐plated instruments and will damage some, but not all, stainless‐steel instruments, especially welded and soldered joints. Damage became apparent after the first exposure and therefore long tests are not necessary to establish which instruments will be damaged. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part B: Appl Biomater 72B: 186–190, 2005