Historical
AAMI TIR12:2010 (AAMI TIR 12:2010)
Designing, testing and labeling reusable medical devices for reprocessing in health care facilities: A guide for medical device manufacturers
Includes the following topics : Design considerations: Assurance that a device can be safely and effectively reprocessed begins with the design of the device. Section 3 of the TIR describes categories of medical devices and the materials and other design characteristics that affect the ability of health care personnel to clean, disinfect, and/or sterilize devices adequately; Decontamination: A device cannot be disinfected adequately or sterilized to an adequate sterility assurance level (SAL) if it cannot be cleaned thoroughly. Section 4 addresses variables associated with cleaning and other decontamination processes used in health care facilities, as well as the minimum information that the device manufacturer should supply to health care personnel; Disinfection: Section 5 describes the levels of disinfection, the criteria for selecting chemical disinfectants, and the testing that device manufacturers should perform to establish the effectiveness of the disinfection processes recommended for their products; Sterilization: Section 6 describes the sterilization processes commonly used in health care facilities, the minimum information that device manufacturers should provide with their products, and the procedures that device manufacturers should use to qualify the sterilization parameters that they recommend
Content Provider
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation [aami]
