Sterilizing Catheters Microwave

Sterilize catheters at home no special equipment required.

Sterilizing catheters microwave.

Do not use a microwave oven to sterilize urinary catheters. Of our patients almost 75 reported using a microwave oven for sterilization and the majority used 4 to 5 catheters daily. Sterilizing without an autoclave biology minute duration. The use of microwave ovens to disinfect intermittent use catheters also has been suggested.

A water heat sink of constant volume was employed. Red rubber urinary catheters were inoculated with common clinical uropathogens and were placed in sealed brown paper bags or ziploc plastic freezer bags and microwaved at full power for various timed intervals. A standard household 650 w microwave oven was used to sterilize polyethylene catheters of the type used for intermittent self catheterization. Adequacy of sanitization and storage of catheters for intermittent use after washing and microwave sterilization.

Repeat sterilization in the microwave oven did not affect the integrity of the catheters or the plastic bags. Coli klebsiella pneumoniae candida albicans were eliminated from red rubber catheters within 5 minutes 931. The effect of microwaving was assessed by determining the resultant colony counts. A home microwave oven may be used as a method to sterilize red rubber catheters for reuse with a recommended time of twelve minutes at full power.

Microwaves are used in medicine for disinfection of soft contact lenses dental instruments dentures milk and urinary catheters for intermittent self cat. Researchers found that test bacteria e g e. However now the microwave oven is almost as common as the stove in most kitchens with at least 1 microwave oven in 83 of households 18 making it a convenient and practical method of catheter sterilization for many patients. Microwaves used for sterilization of medical devices have not been fda cleared.

How to sterilize jars using microwave in 60 seconds. Microwaving red rubber catheters for two minutes is a very simple effective and economic way of sterilizing catheters for patients on intermittent self catheterizations madduri said. The catheters were infected with proteus sp. Bacteria and microwaved at 650 w for periods of 2 4 6 and 8 minutes.

Alcohol is the best way to sterilize catheters. Cdc disinfection sterilization guideline steril methods hicpac microwave.