{"title":"[Sterilization of biocompatible materials: which method to choose?].","authors":"D Goullet","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sterilization of biomaterials, in hospitals, must be considered as the re-sterilization (and not reuse) of devices: prostheses, implants, catheters... This practice is not allowed, according to the circular of may 14 th, 1986; however it is a necessity in various cases. It must be realised with an extreme care, after evaluation of the different methods of sterilization: steam, dry-heat, ethylene oxide, formaldehyde or ionizing radiations and of their effects on the behaviour of the biomaterial.</p>","PeriodicalId":7441,"journal":{"name":"Agressologie: revue internationale de physio-biologie et de pharmacologie appliquees aux effets de l'agression","volume":"33 Spec No 3 ","pages":"121-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Agressologie: revue internationale de physio-biologie et de pharmacologie appliquees aux effets de l'agression","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Sterilization of biomaterials, in hospitals, must be considered as the re-sterilization (and not reuse) of devices: prostheses, implants, catheters... This practice is not allowed, according to the circular of may 14 th, 1986; however it is a necessity in various cases. It must be realised with an extreme care, after evaluation of the different methods of sterilization: steam, dry-heat, ethylene oxide, formaldehyde or ionizing radiations and of their effects on the behaviour of the biomaterial.