Keywords: Surgical Instruments; Sterilisation;
J Comm Eye Health 2004;17(49): 14
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Sterilising instruments
Dear Editor,
With reference to John Sandford Smith’s article: Sutureless Cataract Surgery in Issue 48 of Community Eye Health, I would like to make the following recommendation.
If surgical knives are soaked in povidone iodine or autoclaved, a ‘protector’ needs to be placed on the tip of the knife before soaking/sterilistion takes place. ‘Protectors’ can be made out of old intravenous infusion tubing or silicone pieces. If the knives are placed directly into a metal kidney dish without a protective rubber mat or gauze on the bottom of the dish and without the tip protected, they will soon become blunt.
