| Instrument |
Uses
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| Instrument sterilizers |
Used to sterilize instruments in absence of an autoclave
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| Dressing drums |
storage of gowns, cotton, linen, etc.
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| The microscope |
used for visualising minute structures including microbes
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| Various stains |
used to stain microscopic slides to get contrast
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| Hot air oven |
used in sterilizing instruments for various aseptic procedures, specially if that can not be autoclaved like powders
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| Koch's or Arnold's steam sterilizer |
used for steam sterilization
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| A pressure cooker |
used as a portable autoclave
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| Biological and chemical indicators |
Used to ascertain if a certain process has been completed, e.g. spores used in an autoclave are killed if autoclaving is properly done
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| Filters: |
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| •Candle filter: |
used as household water filters and as filters for large particles in the laboratories
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| ••Diatomaceous earth filters like the Berkefeld filter |
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| ••Unglazed porcelain filters like the Chamberland filter |
-do-
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| •Disk filter or Seitz filter |
previously used as bacteriological filters; presently obsolete
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| •Sintered glass filter |
used as a good particle filter in laboratories
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| •Membrane filter and Syringe filter |
used as primary bacterial/cell filters in procedures as toxin, immunoglobulin, etc. production, where the product gets denatured on heating
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| •Air filter |
like HEPA filter, used in various laboratories and clean rooms to produce lamellar air flow
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| Radiation: |
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| •Gamma ray source |
used in sterilization of heat-labile products like plastic or rubber syringes, catheters and gloves
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| •X-ray source |
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| •Infrared light source |
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| •Ultraviolet light source |
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| Inspissator |
used to produce culture media for bacteriology that contain egg or serum, which coagulate on heating
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| Tyndallizer |
a process of sterilization from spore bearing bacteria; video link
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| Water bath |
to heat things uniformly from all sides at a set temperature up to the boiling point of water
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| Needle Destroyer |
Burns the needle electrically either cuts the syringe manually or burns it electrically
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| Sharps container |
A imperforable container for sharp wastes like needles, blades, microscope slides, broken glass, etc.
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| Cardboard biomedical waste containers |
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| Reusable tubs |
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| Colour coded biomedical waste bags (India) |
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| •Yellow plastic bags |
for human anatomical, animal, microbiological and soiled waste
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| •Red disinfected container or plastic bags |
microbiological waste, solid waste(IV tubes, catheters, etc.)
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| •Blue or White plastic bag or puncture proof containers |
sharps, disposable tubing, etc.
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| •Black Plastic bag or puncture proof containers |
discarded medicines, incineration ash, chemical waste
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| Disinfectants |
for cleaning
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| Incinerators |
to burn biomedical wastes like removed body parts, blood, gauze, linen, etc.
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