This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (7)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

JAY G. LINN, Jr., M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1959;62(4):619-625.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

In any type of surgery, the ideal method of sterilization should be one that safely permits the sterilization of all instruments, sutures, and drapes as well as plastic and rubber materials together in the same sterilizer. Rusting, corrosion, charring, or deteriorization in any form must not occur even after repeated sterilization. Gas sterilization with ethylene oxide gas is the only method available today that meets all of these requirements. A small portable sterilizer using ethylene oxide gas which is ideal for ophthalmic surgery has been used in these studies.*

Ethylene Oxide Gas

Pure ethylene oxide is both toxic and explosive. The explosive hazard was first eliminated by Phillips and Kaye¹ by mixing the ethylene oxide with carbon dioxide. In the commercial sterilizer used in our studies ethylene oxide has been combined with an inerting agent composed of hydrogenated carbons, and this mixture has been packaged in small containers (Steribulbs) . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Pittsburgh

Footnotes
Submitted for publication April 6, 1959.

This study was supported in part by a grant from the Ophthalmic Foundation of Pittsburgh.

Manufactured by the Ben Venue Laboratories, Bedford, Ohio, and available through the leading surgical supply companies.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?