1. Sterilisation qualities and science -- 2. General overview of sterilisation and related methods for healthcare products and polymers -- 3. Steam sterilisation of healthcare products and polymers -- 4. Statistics in sterility assurance and sterilisation validation of healthcare products -- 5. Radiation sterilisation -- 6. Ethylene oxide sterilisation : ubiquitous for most non liquid heat sensitive materials -- 7. Dry heat sterilisation/depyrogenation for extremely heat tolerant and non liquid materials -- 8. Alternative methods of sterilisation of healthcare products, polymers and materials -- 9. More recent alternative methods of sterilisation of polymer products -- 10. Potential applications and developments of sterilisation techniques -- 11. Summary of sterilisation for hospital products, polymers and materials -- 12. Definitions
Summary
Sterilisation has always been challenging but sterilisation of healthcare products and polymers, especially together is an even greater challenge - how do you sterilise without adversely affecting the end use or the end user? This book discusses all the sterilisation methods used for polymeric healthcare products both traditional and new
