Standard aeration for gas-sterilized plastics.
In an effort to provide guidelines for standardizing aeration times for plastics sterilized with ethylene oxide, an Aeration Index has been developed. Based on the rate of diffusion of ethylene oxide in selected polymers, the Index provides an indication of the aeration time at ambient temperature (23 degrees C) for the ethylene oxide concentration in freshly sterilized plastics to drop to 50 parts/10(6).
D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000295:instrumentation; D005027:Ethylene Oxide; D010969:Plastics / Q000592:standards*; D013242:Sterilization / Q000592:standards*; D013696:Temperature; D013997:Time Factors
D010969:Plastics; D005027:Ethylene Oxide
Anesthesiology. 1976 Feb;44(2):174-80
1252029
J Pharm Pharmacol. 1971 Dec;23:170S-175S
4401453
Anaesthesia. 1972 Jul;27(3):278-82
4504817
Bull Parenter Drug Assoc. 1973 Mar-Apr;27(2):49-57
4707185
Anesth Analg. 1971 Jul-Aug;50(4):578-86
5105112
JAMA. 1971 Jan 11;215(2):281-4
5107366
J Pharm Sci. 1969 Aug;58(8):1024-5
5344516
Anesthesiology. 1970 Mar;32(3):261-4
5412885
Hospitals. 1970 Oct 1;44(19):100-4
5459184
Anesth Analg. 1970 Nov-Dec;49(6):919-21
5534691
J Lab Clin Med. 1971 Feb;77(2):346-56
5540778
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1971 Feb;61(2):309-14
5549290
J Pharm Sci. 1971 Feb;60(2):222-4
5572443
Arch Surg. 1968 Mar;96(3):464-70
5651239