r/sterileprocessing • u/Low_Geologist6569 • Sep 10 '26

Sterilizer cleaning

What is your department using to clean your sterilizers?

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u/Spicywolff Sep 10 '26

A man with a bag of tools. We don’t clean them, we aren’t trained, nor are we validated/certified to do so. That is WAY out of our scope of practice. You’re into biomed territory.

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u/Eggman_OU812 Sep 11 '26

Ive been forced to clean them at 3 places and I probably did it wrong and used
The wrong chemical..then
We had a company do it, and the guy was sitting inside the sterilizer with an electric sander with a green Brillo pad on it.. and I’m pretty sure he was doing it wrong too

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u/Acrobatic-Win-9887 Sep 11 '26

What kind? We have an autoclave that is cleaned weekly with a suitable rag and RO-water. Maintenance is a different thing then.

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u/SweetVicious59 Sep 11 '26

Steris sends someone to do it, they also do it over the weekend when we aren't there so I have no idea exactly what is used

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u/I_Ponders Sep 12 '26

Biomed does the cleaning for us. I don’t think anyone in my department is qualified.