• AAMI ISO 18472 : 2007

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    STERILIZATION OF HEALTH CARE PRODUCTS - BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL INDICATORS - TEST EQUIPMENT

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    Withdrawn date:  17-04-2024

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    Published date:  01-01-2010

    Publisher:  Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation

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    Glossary of equivalent standards
    Committee representation
    Background of AAMI adoption of ISO 18472:2006
    Foreword
    Introduction
    1 Scope
    2 Normative references
    3 Terms and definitions
    4 Performance requirements for resistometers
      4.1 Intended use
      4.2 Measurement and control capabilities
      4.3 Test methods
      4.4 Leak test
      4.5 Steam resistometer performance requirements
      4.6 Ethylene oxide resistometer performance requirements
      4.7 Dry heat (heated air) resistometer performance
          requirements
      4.8 Vaporized hydrogen peroxide process resistometer
          performance requirements
    5 Recording systems
      5.1 Measurement systems
      5.2 Calibration
    6 Documentation
      6.1 General
      6.2 Minimum information
    Annex A (informative) - Additional performance
                            characterization - Steam
    Annex B (informative) - Additional performance
                            characterization - Ethylene
                            oxide
    Annex C (informative) - Additional performance
                            characterization - Dry heat
    Annex D (informative) - Resistometer documentation
                            and derivations
    Bibliography

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    Defines the requirements for the test equipment to be used to test chemical and biological indicators for steam, ethylene oxide, dry heat and vaporized hydrogen peroxide processes for conformity to the requirements given in ISO 11140-1 for chemical indicators, or the requirements given in the ISO 11138 series for biological indicators.

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    Committee WG 91
    Development Note Supersedes AAMI ST44 (02/2006)
    Document Type Standard
    Publisher Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
    Status Withdrawn
    Supersedes

    Standards Referenced By This Book - (Show below) - (Hide below)

    ANSI/AAMI ST79:2017 COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO STEAM STERILIZATION AND STERILITY ASSURANCE IN HEALTH CARE FACILITIES

    Standards Referencing This Book - (Show below) - (Hide below)

    ISO 11138-3:2017 Sterilization of health care products — Biological indicators — Part 3: Biological indicators for moist heat sterilization processes
    ISO 10013:1995 Guidelines for developing quality manuals
    ISO 11140-3:2007 Sterilization of health care products — Chemical indicators — Part 3: Class 2 indicator systems for use in the Bowie and Dick-type steam penetration test
    ISO 11138-2:2017 Sterilization of health care products — Biological indicators — Part 2: Biological indicators for ethylene oxide sterilization processes
    ISO 11140-1:2014 Sterilization of health care products Chemical indicators Part 1: General requirements
    ISO 11140-4:2007 Sterilization of health care products — Chemical indicators — Part 4: Class 2 indicators as an alternative to the Bowie and Dick-type test for detection of steam penetration
    IEC 60751:2008 Industrial platinum resistance thermometers and platinum temperature sensors
    ISO 11140-5:2007 Sterilization of health care products — Chemical indicators — Part 5: Class 2 indicators for Bowie and Dick-type air removal tests
    ISO 11138-4:2017 Sterilization of health care products — Biological indicators — Part 4: Biological indicators for dry heat sterilization processes
    ISO 11138-5:2017 Sterilization of health care products — Biological indicators — Part 5: Biological indicators for low-temperature steam and formaldehyde sterilization processes
    ISO 17665-1:2006 Sterilization of health care products — Moist heat — Part 1: Requirements for the development, validation and routine control of a sterilization process for medical devices
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