Integrated sterilization consumables for load monitoring
AssigneeAccelera Technologies, LLC
InventorJacob R. Gibbons
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Abstract
A cassette for use in a decontamination system that delivers sterilant for decontaminating one or more loads and includes at least one process challenge device (PCD), such as a biological and/or chemical indicator. The decontamination system includes a cassette receiving area to receive the cassette such that at least a portion of the cassette is in fluid communication with the interior of the decontamination chamber. During the decontamination process, sterilant fluid from the cassette is delivered to decontaminate a load. The PCD in the cassette is used to confirm effective sterilization of the device to be decontaminated.
Claims20
A decontamination system comprising:
- a decontamination chamber with a plurality of walls defining a device receiving area dimensioned to receive a device to be decontaminated, wherein at least one wall of the plurality of walls define a cassette receiving area in fluid communication with the device receiving area;
- a cassette dimensioned to be detachably received by the cassette receiving area, wherein the cassette includes (i) a sterilant delivery portion to deliver a sterilant to the device receiving area;
- and (ii) a process challenge device (PCD) portion to confirm effective sterilization of the device to be decontaminated, wherein at least a portion of the sterilant delivery portion and at least a portion of the PCD portion is in fluid communication with the device receiving area when the cassette is attached to the cassette receiving area;
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- a sterilization control system to control sterilant delivery from the sterilant delivery portion to the device receiving area.
A cassette for use with a decontamination system, the cassette comprising:
- a cassette body defining at least one internal sterilant reservoir and at least one internal PCD reservoir;
- a volume of sterilant within the at least one internal sterilant reservoir;
- at least one indicator relevant to sterilization of a device to be decontaminated within the at least one internal PCD reservoir;
- wherein the cassette body defines an outlet port to deliver at least a portion of the sterilant from the internal sterilant reservoir and an inlet port to provide fluid communication with the internal PCD reservoir.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.