The Ultimate Guide To Eto Sterilizer Process

ETO Sterilization is most well-liked method of sterilization in Medical devices as those devices can’t survive against the high temperature of most economical, well accepted low cost dry heat steam sterilizer method.

ETO Gas known as Ethylene Oxide gas is an alkaline agent that penetrates packaged medical devices to destroy microbes and thus accomplish goal of sterilization. ETO Sterilization is most acceptable method in medical device sterilization, though, ETO gas is poisonous gas so it is important to understand the process involved in ETO sterilization.

Further, Due to spontaneous nature of EO Gas, the actual ETO process must occur within enclosed chambers to prevent leaks & exposure to the ethylene oxide gas. Also EtO Sterilization is a lengthier process as it involves three stages which are pre conditioning, sterilization and Aeration.

Pre-conditioning: In this first phase, product to be sterilized passes through it which in turn enable the parasite / microbe growth. It is to preheat and humidify product loads to predefined conditions. This will assure a repeatable EO sterilization process regardless of pre-processing load storage conditions.

Sterilization: In this stage the required level of ethylene oxide is widely kept open to assure sterility for a device or family of devices.

Aeration: Lastly, the product passes through an aeration stage where even tiny droplets of ETO get removed.

ETO Sterilizer normally took 14 hour to complete this cycle.

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Shreeji industries has decade of experience in designing and manufacturing the range of ETO Sterilizer for wide range of industries.