Cleaning and liquid contact with solids – Processes – Including use of vacuum – suction – or inert atmosphere
Patent
1974-05-02
1976-05-11
Wolk, Morris O.
Cleaning and liquid contact with solids
Processes
Including use of vacuum, suction, or inert atmosphere
128276, 128350R, 134 22C, 134 34, 206210, B08B 304, B08B 900, A61M 2502
Patent
active
039560112
ABSTRACT:
Method for cleaning a suction catheter including providing a sterilized environment for the catheter prior to use and convenient vessel for cleaning the catheter between each use with a single patient. The method further includes the steps of cleaning the catheter before each use by securing the suction catheter depending from a holder into an opening in a vessel, the opening mating with the said holder, after using said catheter in connection with treating a patient; flowing a cleaning solution into said vessel to the level of soil on said catheter suspended therein; and suctioning substantially all of said cleaning solution from said vessel through said catheter prior to disposing of both catheter and cleaning system after their use in connection with a single patient.
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Wolk Morris O.
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