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Evaluation of Washing Method for Sterilization of Gel Container for Ultrasound Inspection

초음파검사용 젤 용기의 제균을 위한 세척방법 평가

  • Lee, Hee-Jeong (Department of Radiology, Hu Hospital) ;
  • Lee, Suk-Jun (Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Cheongju University) ;
  • Seoung, Youl-Hun (Department of Radiological Science, Graduate School of Health Sciences)
  • 이희정 (휴 병원 영상의학과) ;
  • 이석준 (청주대학교 보건의료대학원 임상병리학과) ;
  • 성열훈 (청주대학교 보건의료대학원 방사선학과)
  • Received : 2018.06.05
  • Accepted : 2018.06.23
  • Published : 2018.06.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare the ultrasound gel container washing methods for the sterilization of contaminants and to find the useful methods for the prevention of infection caused by the ultrasonic gel containers. In this experiment, a 250 mL ultrasonic gel container was used, and the ultrasonic gel used was a non-sterile gel (ECO GEL 99, SeungWon Medical, Korea). In order to evaluate the degree of contamination, new 250 mL 15 containers were divided into 5 groups to perform five types of washing by no treatment, washing with water, washing with soap, washing with bottle cleaner and high disinfection level washing. After the washing process, filled the gel container with gel and after 2 weeks, the number of colonies in the gel container was sampled repeatedly twice in the same ultrasonic laboratory and compared before and after washing. As a result of among the five cleaning methods used in this study, 87.2% and 88.9% of the soapy water washing (p = 0.028) and high level washing (p = 0.027) showed significant bacterial reduction rates, respectively. Our findings conclusively an ultrasonic gel container cleaning method for removing contaminants has been found to be an effective sterilization method at a low cost with a soapy water cleaning method. Therefore, it is expected that it will be helpful to prevent the infection caused by the ultrasonic gel container by suggesting the sterilization cleaning method that is practically useful in this study.

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