title: [Sterilisation of anaesthesia and mechanical ventilation apparatus].
abstract: Anaesthesia and mechanical ventilation apparatus is commonly the source of germs and a means for the transmission of serious forms of infection. Such infections have two main points of origin: the patient himself via the respik ratory passages, and the non-sterile ambient air of the hospital. The serious difficulties presented by the complete sterilisation of such equipment are discussed, these being due both to the size of the apparatus itself and the special needs of the material of which it is composed, and three different methods are put forward, each of which employs a different substance, namely: glyceraldehyde, ethylene oxide and formalin vapours.
authors.affiliation: Direttore Sanitario inc. dell'Ospedale Ostetrico-Ginecologico S. Anna di Torino.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Leone
mesh_terms: D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004866:Equipment Contamination / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013242:Sterilization / Q000379:methods*; D012122:Ventilators, Mechanical