Summary: Cenorin’s Model 610 Thermal High-level Disinfection System is FDA-cleared and uses a full-immersion pasteurization process to provide cost savings, better patient outcomes, and facilitate environmental sustainability, according to the company.
Key Takeaways:
- Automated High-Level Disinfection: The Model 610 uses an FDA-cleared thermal pasteurization process for cleaning and disinfecting reusable medical devices in sleep centers.
- Sustainability: The system supports environmental initiatives by reducing waste, packaging, and shipping.
- Efficient Operation: The system simplifies the disinfection process with minimal labor while also providing documentation for auditing purposes.
Cenorin, a healthcare company providing solutions for infection control management and waste stream reduction, introduces its Model 610 Thermal High-level Disinfection System to sleep centers that reprocess reusable medical devices. The FDA 510(k)-cleared thermal disinfection process has been sold since late 2019 to respiratory therapy departments that reprocess reusable masks, ventilator tubing, and anesthesia circuits. Now the system is being adopted by sleep centers.
The Model 610 is designed to provide safe, efficient, and effective automated cleaning and high-level disinfection using a full-immersion pasteurization process. Independent worst-case and in-use testing has shown that the Cenorin 610 wash/pasteurization cycle achieves the 6-log reduction of all representative organisms that is required by FDA for high-level disinfection.
“When using chemical disinfection methods for high-level disinfection, users must deal with toxicity risks for patients and workers in addition to the added costs,” says Drew Radford, president of Cenorin, in a release. “The Cenorin 610 and 610HT systems provide a cleaning and high-level disinfection option for heat-sensitive medical devices that is sustainable, safe, and economical.”
According to Cenorin, benefits of the Model 610 include:
- Cost Savings: Reprocessing reusable masks, tubing, headgear, humidifiers, and other sleep-related devices can decrease inventory costs by 20-30x.
- Patient Outcomes: Lower acquisition costs create an opportunity for optimal fitting of all CPAP patients since sleep centers can maintain an inventory of 20+ masks—each reprocessed after the fitting at a cost of <$1.00.
- Sustainability Initiatives: Reprocessing can decrease environmental impact through less waste disposal, less shipping, and less packaging.
Using an automated system approach, the Model 610 performs cleaning and high-level disinfection in one cycle, confirming and documenting outcomes for auditing purposes. Its intuitive operation and minimal labor requirements make it a welcome addition to sleep centers, according to Cenorin.
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