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Nov. 8, 2016

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Technology description

Introduction

Instruments used in the field of health are highly likely to spread infectious diseases. In order to reduce this problem, sterilization and/or decontamination methods are used at intervals between procedures. An estimate released by the Ministry of Health indicates that approximately 800,000 people in Brazil are infected with hepatitis B virus and 1.5 million with hepatitis C virus.

Source: CEPOF-USP

Objective

The utility model relates to a structural arrangement of an antifouling device and/or a sterilization device. In the process of its construction, efforts are made to develop, through widely used methods, a device capable of significantly alleviating the major problems related to the microbial control of instruments and materials: (i) impairing the structural characteristics or accuracy of instruments when heat/temperature sterilizing thermally sensitive materials; (ii) Procedural time (in some cases up to 24 hours) to ensure the elimination of spores; (iii) Concern about environmental issues involving waste.

The salient features compared to alternatives for decontamination and/or sterilization are as follows:

-Choosing multifunctional autoclave equipment using different sterilants to obtain a wide range of sterilizing effects and efficient products that can be polymerized into four different types of functions: (i) dry saturated vapor (thermal condensation); (ii) ultraviolet (UV) light; (iii) Ozone (O3); Ozone (O3) and ultraviolet (UV);

-The possibility of integrating the vacuum system in order to provide greater penetration of the sterilant where air may be difficult to access.

Stage of development