OBJECTIVE To determine patient preference for laparoscopic tubal occlusion or hysteroscopic tubal occlusion, two common sterilization interventions, and the acceptability of a postprocedure confirmation test for a hysteroscopic approach. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS A total of 100 patients were offered two procedures. A description of each procedure was developed and read to each patient by a res...

OBJECTIVE: To determine the optimal radiation dose and observe the influence of radiation sterilization on spirulina polypeptide powder. METHODS: The polypeptide powder of spirulina was sterilized using a 60Coγ ray. RESULTS: Radiation sterilization had significant effects on spirulina polypeptide powder, which was more effective with increasing radiation dose. Taking the sterilization rate and ...

Sterilization: The world’s most widely used method Sterilization is the world’s most widely used contraceptive method, in developing and developed countries alike. It accounts for nearly half of all contraceptive use. Today, one out of four couples worldwide use sterilization as their family planning method. However, the number of female sterilization users exceeds the number of vasectomy users...

Women who undergo sterilization may later regret this decision. This systematic review examines whether age at sterilization is associated with poststerilization regret. Using MEDLINE and EMBASE, we identified 19 articles that examined associations between women's age at sterilization and later regret, requests for sterilization reversal and undergoing sterilization reversal or requesting in vi...

It is commonly accepted that terminally sterilized healthcare products are rarely the source of a hospital-acquired infection (HAI). The vast majority of HAIs arise from human-borne contamination from the workforce, the clinical environment, less-than-aseptic handling techniques, and the patients themselves. Nonetheless, the requirement for a maximal sterility assurance level (SAL) of a termina...

A new bio restorable hybrid burn dressing which combines a synthetic porous top layer with a spongy collagen sub layer was developed and studied. The top layer contained the antibiotic drug gentamicin for controlled release to the wound site. Our investigation focused on the effects of gamma-irradiation sterilization (10, 25, 35 and 50 kGy) on the antibacterial efficacy and on the mechanical an...

The development of bio-resorbable implant materials is rapidly going on. Sterilization of those materials is inevitable to assure the hygienic requirements for critical medical devices according to the medical device directive (MDD, 93/42/EG). Biopolymer-containing biomaterials are often highly sensitive towards classical sterilization procedures like steam, ethylene oxide treatment or gamma ir...

Sterilization is a process that eliminates or kills all microbes, including transmissible agents present on a surface, contained in a fluid, medication or biological culture media (UCLA Department Epidemiology). Dry heat sterilization is one of the important methods of eliminating microbes, as it coagulates the proteins in an organism, causing oxidative free radical damage thus leading to cell ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the safety and efficacy of hysteroscopic sterilization with the "Essure" device with laparoscopic sterilization in a large, all-inclusive, state cohort. DESIGN Population based cohort study. SETTINGS Outpatient interventional setting in New York State. PARTICIPANTS Women undergoing interval sterilization procedure, including hysteroscopic sterilization with Essure dev...