title: Life-span indicator for resterilizable plastic products.
abstract: Disposable medical products have obvious advantages for users, in particular, assured sterility. Yet, one-time use creates large amounts of waste that cannot easily be reprocessed. Despite this, resterilizable products are not common, principally because of problems in monitoring the level of resterilization. This article suggests a solution in the form of an indicator that changes colour according to the number of sterilization cycles it undergoes.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory Dr Haindl, Wennigsen, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Haindl
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gildor
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kartheus
mesh_terms: D004389:Durable Medical Equipment / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D017743:Equipment Reuse; D004869:Equipment Safety; D010969:Plastics / Q000737:chemistry; D012306:Risk; D013242:Sterilization; D013997:Time Factors