ultrasonic cleaners

Re: ultrasonic cleaners

Juliet Drummond DAVN (med) RVN D32/33 — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:42:41 GMT

p.s we went for the Q-series, its excellent

Re: ultrasonic cleaners

Juliet Drummond DAVN (med) RVN D32/33 — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:41:58 GMT

i found that going direct to the maker was cheaper than say vet inst or burtons

i saved several hundred pounds here-

http://www.ultrawave.co.uk/products.php?id=15

Re: ultrasonic cleaners

purfect247 — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:57:01 GMT

I can agree to a point with this. Ultrasonic cleaners are not recommended for cleaning certain items, for example items that have rubber parts will lose performance if subjected to ultrasonic waves. Always check with the instrument/device manufacturer before using a ultrasonic bath as part of your cleaning regime.

Ultrasonic baths create bubbles that impload helping to thoroughly clean jointed or many faceted instruments that are otherwise hard to clean manually, thus being advantages to your infection control programme.

Add detergent, ensuring the manufacturers recommendations are followed, if your tank has a heater ensure that the temperature is comparable to the detergents manufacturer.

Ultrasonic cleaning tanks should only be used if recommended by the device/instrument manufacturer.

Re: ultrasonic cleaners

sisterscope1 — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:42:35 GMT

..... I can see how it would damage plated instruments.

I've experience of Aesculap instruments, now about 12 years old, passed through an ultrasonic cleaner and washer disinfector after each use that haven't deteriorated in anyway whatsoever. I guess it depends on the quality of the instruments too.

Re: ultrasonic cleaners

Steph Worsley — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:14:13 GMT

Andy Pound from Animal care, he used to work in the human field prior to coming over to the dark side!!!

Re: ultrasonic cleaners

sisterscope1 — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:11:20 GMT

Interesting, who was the talk by? Was is sponsored by anyone?

They can cause damage with careless and inappropriate use, but human decontamination specialists would still regard them as being an extremely effective cleaning modality. Cleaning of surgical instruments should be given much more consideration than it used to be. If it is not clean, it can't be sterilised.

Fancy one of these, anyone?

http://www.medisafeinternational.com/pro_niagara_ultrasonic.html Yours for about £50k

Re: ultrasonic cleaners

Steph Worsley — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:33:03 GMT

a talk i went to recently said DONT USE these as they cause more damage to the instruments, and as long as you are using a proper instrument cleaner then you shouldn't need to use one anyway!

Re: ultrasonic cleaners

Gillian Mostyn — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:26:10 GMT

David at Surgical Systems

www.surgicalsystemsltd.co.uk

is always helpful and his stuff is reasonably priced.

Re: ultrasonic cleaners

purfect247 — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:22:20 GMT

Dear Stacey

Please find an ultrasonic tank that we sell for £150.00 it is a good unit at an economical price.

You can order by calling our sales team on 01347 878697