Sterilizing the new Ankylos Surgical Kit?
Dr. T. asks:
Could anyone please tell me how to sterilize the new Ankylos surgical kit? Since it has plastic and rubber components, can I just bag this like other instruments in an autoclave bag and then just autoclave it? I do not want to melt the non-metal components. Are these plastic and rubber components resistant to the temperature and pressure of normal autoclave cycles? Is there a special cycle that I can use which would sterilize the components but minimize the chance for damage?
6 Comments on Sterilizing the new Ankylos Surgical Kit?
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Don Callan
10/20/2009
Talk to the sales rep, that is his job.
CM
10/20/2009
You can fully sterilize the 'new' Ankylos surgical kit. The plastic and rubber components are resistant to high temperatures.
Dr Harold Bergman DDS, Di
10/24/2009
Plastic and rubber will melt. We've known that since rubber and plastic was invented. Look at the Simpler instrument kits, all metal and completely sterilizable. Much better thought out system.
Bill Schaeffer
10/24/2009
Dear Dr Harold Bergman, Absolutely EVERYTHING melts if you heat it high enough - even your metal kits. We’ve known that since metal was first worked!
What actually matters is if the containers used for the kits, melt (or even start to degrade in any way), at the temperatures used in autoclaves.
THEY DON'T! Use a normal vacuum cycle and you'll be fine.
Kind Regards,
Bill Schaeffer
Dr Dwayne Karateew
10/27/2009
The new Ankylos surgical is fabricated from heat and pressure resistant plastics and rubbers, much like any other kits made from these materials which have been used for years. And yes, the kit is well thought out with respect to arrangement.
You can bag it and run it through your Statim or any other sterilizing system. Make sure the drills etc are clean of all residual blood and bone particles. There is a special instrument in your kit to clean these out of the hole at the tip of the drill and the channel in the shank used for internal irrigation (if you so choose).
jon
10/27/2009
Bill Schaeffer,
Hilarious post but so true. Go ahead and autoclave and you will be fine.
