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California
Medical Sterilization Guidelines
Licensing
and Certification of Health Facilities and Referral Agencies
State of California
70833. Autoclaves and Sterilizers.
(a) Autoclaves and sterilizers shall be maintained in operating
condition at all times.
(b) Instructions for operating autoclaves and sterilizers shall
be posted in the area where the autoclaves and sterilizers are located.
(c) Written procedures shall be developed, maintained, and available
to personnel responsible for sterilization of supplies and
equipment that include, but are not limited to the following:
......1. Time, temperature, and pressure for sterilizing the various
bundles, packs, dressings, instruments, solutions etc.
......2. Cleaning, packaging, storing and issuance of supplies and
equipment.
......3. Dating and outdating of materials sterilized.
......4. Loading of the sterilizer.
......5. Daily checking of recording and indicating thermometers
and filing for one year of recording thermometer charts.
......6. Monthly bacteriological test, the bacterial organism used
and filing for one year of the test results.
......7. Length of aeration time for materials
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