Tools for medical manipulation: the evolution of use, treatment and disinfection (literature review)

Many factors contributed to the improvement of the quality and safety of medical services, including the development of medical instruments and methods of their treatment and disinfection. This article summarizes a brief history of instruments for medical manipulation and the development of methods of their processing over the world and Russia. The purpose of the study is to review and generalize the development of surgical instruments used for medical manipulations, including autopsy, their treatment, and disinfection. A comprehensive literature search was conducted for references on the topic of the article and subsequent analysis of publications. Systematic search of scientific papers was carried out using several search engines: PubMed, RSCI, Google Scholar, CyberLeninka. The progress of forensic medical examination is largely related to the result of the development of medical instruments, methods, and modes of their processing. Surgical instruments existed at the dawn of mankind, and their evolution corresponds to the degree of development of medical science and practice. The use of disinfectants for the treatment of medical instruments dates back hundreds of years. Disinfection of sectional instruments is of paramount importance to ensure infection safety. We have accumulated some experience in using disinfectants. Success depends solely on the use of effective methods and disinfection, in recent years, the treatment and disinfection of instruments has been supplemented with modern methods. Prospects for further improvement of the results of forensic medical examination are necessarily associated with the development of tools for medical manipulation and their processing.