Hospitals have always played a key role in the medical industry: with the right equipment, these medical facilities can handle large amounts of medical waste every day. However, as coronavirus outbreaks will treat more and more infected people for hospital staff, treating more patients will also mean more medical equipment and producing more medical waste, making the issue of safe sterilization in hospitals more important than it already is.

Regardless of the coronavirus outbreak, sterilization remains at the forefront of medical facilities’ responsibilities. Medical personnel need to do more to avoid risks associated with infectious tools and medical waste disposal. However, now that there is a virus, the main risk of sterilization — infection through surgical instruments or other medical devices — is even greater. If you do not have the proper on-site equipment to sterilize in the hospital, it can easily lead to the spread of coronavirus within your medical facility and even to the outside world, as doctors can also be carriers of the virus. Of course, all of this can be avoided by proper sterilization.

Autoclave is essentially steam sterilization. As the name suggests, it uses steam at very high pressure and temperature to kill any and all bacteria present on medical tools and equipment. Since coronavirus can infect people even through the surface on which an infected person sneezes or coughs, you can imagine how important it is to effectively disinfect patients and even all medical equipment in the presence of medical personnel.

Fortunately, steam sterilization is one of the most modern methods in the world. Its worldwide success can be traced to the simple fact that the type of bacteria you treat doesn’t matter, because even heat-resistant bacteria can’t match its strength. Therefore, if you use this method, there is absolutely no chance that the coronavirus will still be present on your medical device. The “great power” comes from the details of the method: by increasing the pressure inside the autoclave chamber, it can also raise the boiling point of water from 100 degrees to between 121 and 134 degrees Celsius.

As hospitals around the world prepare for possible spikes in coronavirus outbreaks, there’s certainly a chance that you’ll need medical equipment sterilizers that handle large quantities of items at once to improve the productivity of health care staff. We recommend YG-0.6 Pulse Vacuum Steam Sterilizer. By using a powerful vacuum pump, the autoclave will first remove all air from its chamber and raise the internal pressure level. The temperature of the steam is between 121 and 134 degrees, and no microbes can resist this heat, which means you can guarantee that your autoclaves will destroy all the potentially harmful foreign particles. Of course, this increased pressure and temperature also need to be maintained for a certain period of time for the steam sterilization process to take effect. This usually takes about 20-30 minutes, depending on the autoclave used and the size of the internal load. Since the hospital is one of the largest medical institutions, both medium and large autoclavics can sterilize medical equipment.