Home Nursing Care Cleaning Chores Get Easier with A Professional Ultrasonic Cleaner
Home nursing has its share of messiness. Getting the equipment clean can quickly become frustrating chore as you may not have access to the right cleaning equipment as you would if you were in a hospital.
If you are a fan of Grey's Anatomy or a similar medical show, you'll know that a cut up human body is a mess of blood and guts and gore. Naturally during the surgery, some of that will stick to the scalpels, clamps, surgical scissors and so on – and they need to be cleaned thoroughly before they can be reused. Similarly, when you visit the dentist, you want to be sure that whatever he puts in your mouth is spotlessly clean and hygienic.
Generally, one thinks of sterilization in connection with medical and surgical instruments. However, sterilization only destroys micro-organisms that may inhabit the instruments; it does not remove blood, saliva, tissue and other debris. In fact, if even tiny amounts of contaminants remain on the instruments, the sterilization process may not be 100% effective. For complete removal of micron level impurities, the answer lies in ultrasonic cleaning coupled with an autoclave that will sterilize the instruments at the microbial layer.
Ultrasonic cleaners produce very high frequency, high energy sound waves that create tiny, partial vacuum bubbles in a liquid medium. A process known as cavitation. These bubbles practically blast contaminants off the instruments to be cleaned. While simultaneously, they are so tiny that they can penetrate the smallest cavity and do not damage the instrument or denture.
Ultrasonic cleaners come in different sizes and can be adapted for different applications. Moreover, they are compact units that can be tucked away unobtrusively in a corner of the room and do not need a climate-controlled environment. Ultrasonic cleaning is non-messy and efficient and does not require much physical exertion. Thus the cleaners can be used even by old people and invalids.
Dentists are finding ultrasonic cleaners to be almost indispensible. By using ultrasonic technology, they can be confident that new crowns are completely clean before they are sterilized and affixed, thus virtually eliminating the risk of infection. Moreover, ultrasonic cleaning ensures that dental picks, scrapers and other instruments are completely hygienic before they are inserted into the patient's mouth. Even at home, dental ultrasonic cleaners eliminate the physical effort involved in hand scrubbed, avoid the risks of the dentures getting scratched, or contaminants getting accidently transferred from fingers or hand gloves. And, of course, they ensure comprehensive cleaning not achievable with manual methods. Specific models adapted to dentistry are now commercially available that can achieve complete cleaning in less than 10 minutes.
In hospitals and clinics, ultrasonic cleaners have proved their convenience and efficiency so comprehensively that they have become standard fixtures. Part of their appeal has to do with simple economics. It is not practical or feasible to replace every minor surgical instrument after it has been used and soiled; and manual cleaning would be too labour intensive, besides being less than foolproof. Ultrasonic cleaning overcomes all these constraints; and renders the instruments ready for direct sterilization.
Ultrasonic cleaners, then, are now ubiquitous in all areas of medicine and dentistry, not only in hospitals, but also at home. Home care patients are discovering that a compact unit is not only convenient, efficient and easy to use, but also effects significant saving by reducing visits to the clinic or laboratory.
About the Author
Dr. Bob Sandor is a Director at Tovatech, a leading North American supplier of ultrasonic cleaner units. When not busy running his company he explores his fascination with the many aspects of various scientific & industrial devices. For more details on the above you can reach him through the ultrasonic cleaners section of his website.
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