Method for cleaning medical equipment
AssigneeBASF SE
InventorsSebastian Alexander Weisse, Bernhard Vath, Tobias Heinz Steinke, Robert D. Ober
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Abstract
A method for cleaning medical equipment by scrubbing the equipment with an open-cell melamine-formaldehyde foam comprising an antibacterial active composition, and wherein the open-cell melamine-formaldehyde foam is prepared from a melamine-formaldehyde precondensate, wherein the molar ratio melamine to formaldehyde of the melamine-formaldehyde precondensate is smaller than 0.5.
Claims8
A method for cleaning medical equipment comprising scrubbing the equipment with a melamine-formaldehyde foam comprising an antibacterial active composition, wherein the melamine-formaldehyde foam is prepared from a melamine-formaldehyde precondensate, wherein the molar ratio melamine to formaldehyde of the melamine-formaldehyde precondensate is smaller than 0.5,
- wherein the melamine-formaldehyde foam is prepared in the presence of a surfactant mixture comprising 50 to 90 wt. % of at least one alkanesulfonate and 10 to 50 wt.-% of at least one alkyl polyethylene glycol ether, and
- wherein the medical equipment is a catheter or an endoscope.
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