Intubeaze Nozzles!

Re: Intubeaze Nozzles!

Laura Ringsell — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:00:45 GMT

I autoclave on the 134 degree cycle and have never had a shrinking problem - they do warp after a while but a long while!

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Laura Samuel — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:35:54 GMT

I wash our with hibiscrub sll the time. I have to admit i didnt know that you could autoclave them, i will now have to try this

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Linzi Mac — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:24:43 GMT

We wash them in Meddis first and then run our nozzles through the autoclave.

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Nick Shackleton — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:07:09 GMT

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We tried autoclaving ours and they shrunk and wouldn't fit on the bottle.

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You tried on a 121 cycle?? Think this is the reason why many of us use cold sterilisation plus the time to autoclave

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Diane Westwood — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:36:05 GMT

We tried autoclaving ours and they shrunk and wouldn't fit on the bottle.

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Lesley Stinson — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:57:15 GMT

I work in a practise in southern ireland and we deal with a lot of feral cats. We sterlize our Intubease nozzels after every use because we have a very high number of FIV and FeLV cats in the wild cat population which are infecting our pet cats. We would not be doing our job properly if we were infecting pet cats through contaminated equipment so sterlizing is the way to go. Some times gunk does get on the nozzel so we as a matter of habit sterlize everything between cats

Do you sterilise you Intubeaze nozzles between cats?

I have been taught to since day one, and I must admit that after watching vets spray the larynx, most of them manage to touch the nozzle to some gum/manky teeth/larynx/general cat in the process

So, because of this I am firmly of the opinion that the nozzles should be sterilised between cats. I've found they autoclave pretty well, but meddis, novasapa or milton work well too if they tend to melt

Am I the only nozzle sterilser on vet nurse? Surely not!

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Do you sterilise you Intubeaze nozzles between cats?

I have been taught to since day one, and I must admit that after watching vets spray the larynx, most of them manage to touch the nozzle to some gum/manky teeth/larynx/general cat in the process

Am I the only nozzle sterilser on vet nurse? Surely not!

Re: Intubeaze Nozzles!

Tracy Windler RVN — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:12:21 GMT

Grrrr! Don't have any spares in my new practice! I'm so jealous of all you guys with 15 spare nozzle heads!

No ops in tomorrow, so think I might go and sterilise our lonely nozzle now!

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Vicky RVN — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:05:28 GMT

Masks are always cleaned and then soaked in milton.

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Phrin Vernon RVN — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:01:58 GMT

I'm glad to see there are so many nozzle sterilisers about

We try and clean the masks too - usually a good soak and scrub in trigene, and then a good rinse. We also soak / scrub as far as possible the circuits once a week on a Friday - therefore giving them lots of time to drain before Monday morning And personally I try and leave at least one circuit dry and ready for use for emergencies - usually the ADE as that covers all sizes.... but then that needs washing too sometimes!

Re: Intubeaze Nozzles!

Denise — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:48:32 GMT

Yes, I take the nozzles off as soon as the vets have sprayed the cats, so the vets can't use them on the next patient, and replace with a new one-we have loads of spares, they are then washed and autoclaved.

we also clean all the GA masks in between patients- something a lot of surgeries seem to forget about.

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epartrick — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:42:54 GMT

We soak them in hibiscrub then put them in cold sterilant

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Fiona Leathers — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 03:10:39 GMT

We keep all the nozzles and we change them for each cat, and they get cleaned at the end of the day with hibi & milton. Try to think how I would feel if it was me getting stuff done & I wouldn't want anyone else's slavers in my mouth!

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Stella Skelton RVN — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:44:06 GMT

We change them between every cat and keep the old nossles to make this easier...we then wash them all in Medizyme and the sterilise them in Milton.

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staceyvn — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:40:08 GMT

we have some trigene wipes and little pipe cleaners you can get from the bods who make intubeze (dechra)

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Rachel Jayne — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:56:08 GMT

Used to wipe any goo off & leave in meddis at my last private practice

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BengalcatRVN — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:01:57 GMT

I'll have to restore my nozzle levels once Intubeze comes back in stock. For now, a wipe and a rinse bwtween cats will have to do. Are we RVNNS?

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Phrin Vernon RVN — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:44:05 GMT

Ohh BengalCat - I feel your pain! My stash of nozzles also seemed to deplete during my 2 weeks holiday! Boooo!

As far as I know, and judging from reactions when I started, my current practice never sterilised nozzles between patients before I started. But we do now - yay!

The only time I have seen them melt, is when using nylon bags, and placing them on the bottom of the autoclave - otherwise they are fine!

Yay for Vet Nurse Nozzle Sterilisers!

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BengalcatRVN — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:14:00 GMT

I too thought they'd melt. I clean them between cats, then give a good rinse with water to remove residue cleaner, as I don't want to cause irritation!

I kept my old ones, but during my 2 weeks off, someone's thrown them all away everything's gone wrong, should not have holiday

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Mrs Dot Dot — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:08:19 GMT

We clean with hibi and then milton..... never considered autoclaving... just thought they would melt... useful to know tho, seems sensible to autoclave fairly regularly

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Emma Purnell — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:40:38 GMT

All ours are cleaned and autoclaved

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Juliet Drummond DAVN (med) RVN D32/33 — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:35:09 GMT

same here

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Laura Ringsell — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:30:26 GMT

Yup me too - clean them, then in the ultrasonic prior to drying and autoclaving - have about 15 in circulation at the moment. After a lot of autoclaving they do start to loose there shape but then you always (well hopefully soon anyway) have a new box with a new nozzle to look forward too!

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Sally Howe — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:31:41 GMT

I didn't know you can autoclave them. I keep them from old bottles so one nozzle used per cat.

I clean them in hibi then in novaspa.

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Jen — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:04:15 GMT

We do too! We have so many now though that we only use them once each day and re sterilise them all at the dne of the day.

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Sally Seddon — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:40:55 GMT

We didnt used to, only recently started doing it. Had never really thought about it until a locum nurse mentioned it