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Sterilization Flashcards

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Sources of contaminations

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  • Airborne
  • Breath
  • Skin
  • Hair
  • Clothing
  • Surfaces
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Methods to minimize contamination

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  • Airborne: use laminar airflow
  • Breath: use masks
  • Skin: nails must be scrubbed and hands and forearms washed with detergents
  • Hair and clothing: wear sterile down over normal clothing, wear a cotton cap
  • Working surfaces: clean with a bactericidal solution/ethyl alcohol
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Definition of sterility

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Absence of life; absolute freedom from biological contamination

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Definition of sterilization

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Inactivation/elimination of all viable organism and their spores

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Definition of disinfectant

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Substance used on non-living objects to render them non-infectious; kills vegetative bacteria, fungi, viruses but not spores e.g. formaldehyde

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Definition of antiseptic

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Substance used to prevent multiplication of microorganism when applied to living systems
Bacteriostatic in action but not necessarily bacteriocidal

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Definition of bacteriostat

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Substance which stops growth and multiplication of bacteria but does not necessarily kill them

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Definition of bactericide

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Substance that kills vegetative bacteria and some spores

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Thermal death time

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Time required to kill a particular organism under a given condition

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What are the techniques for sterilization

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  1. Steam sterilization
  2. Dry heat sterilization
  3. Filtration
  4. Gaseous
  5. Ionizing Radiation/Irradiation
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Describe Steam sterilization

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  • Use steam under pressure in autoclaves
  • Time, temp. 240C, pressure 20-30 lb
  • Killing due to denaturation and coagulation of the microorganism’s proteins
  • Highly effective, less time, inexpensive and large volumes
  • therapeutic agent must be stable to water, heat
  • Not for oily and moisture sensitive preparations
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Applications for steam sterilization

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  • Solutions in ampoules
  • vials
  • instruments
  • glassware
  • surgical dressing
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Describe dry heat sterilization

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  • No water used
  • 160 - 170C for 2-4h in an oven
  • Killing is due to dehydration of the microbial cells followed by slow oxidation
  • Not for therapeutic agents that are thermolabile
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Applications for dry heat sterilization

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  • Glassware
  • Heat stable powders
  • Paraffin
  • Petrolatum
  • Fixed oils
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Describe filtration

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  • Physical removal of microorganisms by adsorption on the filter medium - filtration membrane
  • Highly impt for sterilization of therapeutic agents especially heat sensitive materials
  • Slow for large volumes and saturable (difficult to push a saturated material through the membrane)
  • Membranes may absorb drug
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Advantages of bacterial filtration

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  • Speed - in case of small volumes
  • Ability to sterilize thermolabile materials
  • Inexpensive
  • Complete removal of living and dead microorganism and particulate matters
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Describe gaseous sterilization

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  • Used mainly for heat and moisture sensitive materials

- Propylene oxide/ethylene oxide-carbon dioxide mixture at pressure 30 psi, temp 20-60C, 4-16h

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Application of gaseous sterilization

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  • Thermolabile powder
  • Polymers
  • Ophthalmics
  • Subcutaneous, vaginal inserts
  • Plastic syringes
  • Tubing sets
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Disadvantages of gaseous sterilization

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  • Toxic
  • gases are highly flammable
  • explosive hazard
  • not appropriate for solutions
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Describe ionizing radiation/irradiation for sterilization

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  • Limited in use -> effect of radiation on containers and products
  • Need highly specialized equipment: UV Lamp, ionization
  • Mechanism: altering the chemicals within/supporting the microorganism to form deleterious new chemicals capable of destroying the cell
  • Good for thermolabile material
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How is sterility tests done?

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  • Organisms resistant to the method is used as the marker organism
  • Choice of test method depends on the types of microorganisms involved
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Marker organism for steam and ethylene oxide

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Bacillus stearothermophilus

23
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Marker organism for dry heat

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Bacillus subtilis

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What are pyrogens

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Fever producing organic substances arising from contamination by bacteria, molds, viruses, and yeasts.
Causative material thought to be a lipopolysaccharide from the outer cell wall of the bacteria and endotoxins.

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Removal of pyrogens

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  • Heating at high temp. (e.g. 250C for 45 mins)

- Reverse osmosis and ultrafiltration are excellent ways of removing pyrogen contamination from water

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Testing for pyrogens

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  • Rabbit tests

- Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) Tests

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Describe rabbit tests

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  1. Render the syringes, needles and glassware free from pyrogens by heating at 250C for not less than 30 mins
  2. Warm the product to be tested to 37C plus/minus 2C
  3. Take 3 healthy rabbits and weigh and record temp
  4. Inject into an ear vein of each of 3 rabbits 10 ml of the product per kg body weight
  5. Record the temp at 1,2 and 3 hrs
    - Material only meets the USP requirements for the absence of pyrogen if no rabbit shows an individual rise in temp at 0.6C or more above its respective control temp and sum of the temp. rises is less than 1.4C
    - IF NOT, repeat tests using 5 other rabbits
    - Material meets the USP requirements for the absence of pyrogens if not more than 3 of the 8 rabbits show individual rises in temp of more than or equal to 0.6C and sum of 8 individual temp. rises < 3.7C
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Describe Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) Tests

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  • Extract from the blood cells of the Horse Shoe Crab (Limulus Polyphemus) contains an enzyme and protein that coagulates in the presence of low levels of lipopolysaccharides
  • Considered more sensitive to endotoxin compared to the rabbit test
  • Some products cannot be tested by LAL cos of API
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Types of sterile products

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  • Systems and administration devices:
    Dispersed systems - lipid microspheres, liposomes, microparticulates
    Implants - bone growth, fertility controls, sustained delivery
  • Parenterals
  • Ophthalmics
  • Topicals

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