Sterile packaging for flexible endoscopes
OwnerTralance Addy, Su Syin Wu +1inventors
InventorsTralance Addy, Su Syin Wu, Debra Timm
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Abstract
A packaging enclosure for receiving a flexible endoscope during a sterilization procedure and sterile storage thereafter has a portion thereof which is semi-permeable. Provision is made for hanging the packaging enclosure over a hook or peg. In one embodiment the packaging enclosure conforms to the endoscope so that its two flexible portions may hang over opposite sides of the hook. Alternatively, a hook or aperture may be provided on the packaging enclosure for hanging it over the hook.
Claims12
A Packaging enclosure for a flexible endoscope having first and second flexible tubes, said packaging enclosure comprising a wall forming an interior space impervious to microorganisms for receiving the endoscope, at least a portion of the wall being semi-permeable, and a hanging means for hanging the packaging enclosure with the endoscope therein over a hook.
A method for sterilizing and storing an endoscope having first and second flexible tubes, said method comprising the steps of:
- placing the endoscope within a packaging enclosure comprising a wall forming an interior space for receiving the endoscope, at least a portion of the wall being semi-permeable;
- passing a sterilizing gas into the packaging enclosure;
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- hanging the packaging enclosure with the sterile endoscope therein over a hook.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.