Thermal Inspection Ensures Sterility of Medical Devices
HANK HOGAN, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Maintaining a sterile environment inside the operating room is critical. This extends to surfaces, the garments of the surgeons performing the procedures, and the medical devices themselves.
To make sure the devices get to the operating room completely sterile, a medical device manufacturer put in place a direct heat transfer seal as the final step in the process involving the making of nonimplantable surgical devices. Complicating matters, the packaging had to stay transparent so that members of a busy operating team could easily see its contents.
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Published: December 2021