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Pharm D- Clinical Pharmacy Program Third Level Pharmaceutical Microbiology& Antimicrobials (PM 502)
Which objects should be:
Cleaned?
Disinfected low level?
Disinfected intermediate level?
Disinfected high level?
Sterilized?
Classification of Materials to be Sterilized / Disinfected
(Spaulding classification system)
Earle H. Spaulding devised a rational approach to disinfection and sterilization of
patient-care items and equipment.
- This has three categories
1- Critical Items
• objects that enter sterile tissue or the vascular system must be sterile
because any microbial contamination could transmit disease.
• surgical instruments
• cardiac and urinary catheters
• implants.
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