Sterilization Guidelines - ICRC

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STERILIZATIONGUIDELINESInternational Committee of the Red Cross19, avenue de la Paix1202 Geneva, SwitzerlandT +41 22 734 60 01 F +41 22 733 20 57E mail: ICRC, December 2014Cover photos: Julie Barnet/ICRC, Reda instruments, Jeannette de Vries/ICRCSTERILIZATIONGUIDELINES3STERIL IZATION GUIDELINESTABLE OF CONTENTS1. Terms and abbreviations 52. Introduction 63. Acknowledgements 74. General information 85. Principles of contamination Methods of reducing the bioburden 116. Classification of instruments (Spaulding Classification) 127. Organizing the Sterilization department The flow of instruments through the central sterile supplies department The cleaning (or dirty) zone The packaging (or clean) zone The autoclaving (or sterile) zone The storage and distribution zone 158.

CEN European Committee for Standardization ... taken in any medical facility, including those supported by the ICRC. In 2004 a workshop was held for experienced ICRC operating theatre (OT) nurses and experts from Médecins Sans Frontières to discuss the main problems relating

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