title: Innovations in sterilization technology for instrument processing.
abstract: The past 5 years have seen the development of specialized devices to package, protect, and sterilize surgical instruments. The sterilization container system is one such innovative approach to operating room instrument processing. When compared with disposable and reusable systems, the sterilization container system was found to have the advantages of lower cost and improved efficiency.
mesh_terms: D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D013242:Sterilization / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013525:Surgical Instruments