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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 23, 545-549, Copyright © 1976 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

Contamination and Resterilization of the Bain Circuit

A. C. ENRIGHT 1, R. L. MOORE 1, and F. L. PARNEY 1

1 Departments of Anaesthesia and Laboratories, Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alberta

Fifty Bain circuits were tested for contamination following single patient use. A contamination rate of 8 per cent was found. Two methods of resterilization were examined. Sterilization by activated glutaraldehyde proved unsatisfactory, while ethylene oxide sterilization was found to be an effective method which produced no detectable adverse physical or chemical alterations of the circuits.






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