As someone specializing in Surgical Services or Sterile Processing, you know that patient safety begins even before the point of care. You worry about the instruments your team processes, the contaminants that may be hiding in hard-to-reach places, and whether every scope is truly ready for its next patient. When you’re responsible for protecting patients from harmful pathogens, it’s understandable that sterilization concerns can keep you up at night.
But here’s the good news: one of the most powerful tools healthcare facilities can implement to help prevent these infections already exists — technology designed to sterilize even the hardest-to-access areas of complex medical devices. It’s achievable with Andersen’s EOGas 4PLUS. Delivering a validated sterility assurance level (SAL) of 10⁻⁶ for even the longest-lumen scopes, EOGas 4PLUS gently eliminates harmful microorganisms while maintaining sterility until the point of care. That means greater confidence for you and your team, knowing the scopes you process are ready to help protect patients.
Sterilize What Other Methods Can’t
One of the biggest challenges in sterilizing endoscopes is reaching the internal surfaces of long, narrow lumens where harmful microorganisms can hide. This is exactly what the technology behind EOGas 4PLUS was designed to solve. Andersen’s award-winning EO-Flexible Chamber Technology (EO-FCT) uses a gas-impermeable sterilization bag that acts as the chamber itself. Before sterilization begins, excess air is removed from the bag, eliminating chamber dead space and allowing a precisely controlled, ultra-low dose of ethylene oxide (just 17.6 grams) to reach the instruments inside. Once released, EO gas penetrates the packaging and travels into the narrow internal channels of complex devices, reaching areas that are difficult to access with other sterilization methods. This unique approach allows EOGas 4PLUS to achieve a validated 10⁻⁶ sterility assurance level (SAL), even in the longest-lumen flexible endoscopes. In fact, EOGas 4PLUS is FDA-cleared to sterilize duodenoscopes and colonoscopes with channels up to 3,530 mm (11.6 feet) long and 1.2 mm in diameter.
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Sterile Until the Point of Care
Patient safety begins long before a procedure starts. It begins with ensuring the devices used to care for patients are properly sterilized and remain protected until they’re needed. That’s the advantage of terminal sterilization with EOGas 4PLUS. Instruments are sterilized inside a sealed Tyvek pouch and remain sterile within their packaging until it’s opened at the point of care. This helps protect against recontamination during storage, transport, and handling, giving your team confidence that instruments are ready for use when patients need them. Unlike processes that require instruments to be handled after sterilization, potentially exposing them to contaminants, terminal sterilization keeps devices protected in their final packaging. This gives your department greater flexibility to prepare instruments in advance while maintaining the sterile barrier all the way to the procedure room.
Effective Sterilization Without Compromising Your Instruments
Your scopes and medical devices are valuable investments, and keeping them in good working condition is important. Many complex, sensitive instruments cannot withstand high temperatures or exposure to certain harsh chemical sterilants. EOGas 4PLUS offers a gentle, controlled sterilization process, operating at either 30°C (room temperature) or 50°C (low temperature) to accommodate heat- and moisture-sensitive medical devices. Using just 17.6 grams of ethylene oxide per cartridge, EOGas 4PLUS delivers effective terminal sterilization while helping preserve the materials, functionality, and integrity of compatible medical devices. For your department, that means another effective option for processing delicate, high-value instruments without subjecting them to the conditions of traditional high-temperature sterilization.
Sleep Easier with Confidence in Every Cycle
You carry an enormous responsibility when it comes to protecting patients, and the devices your team processes play an important role in that commitment. With EOGas 4PLUS, you can have greater confidence in a sterilization process designed to reach the most challenging areas of complex devices while keeping them sterile in their sealed packaging until the point of care. It’s a smarter approach to endoscope sterilization that helps support patient safety and gives your department peace of mind. Sleep easier knowing your instruments are sterile, protected, and ready when patients need them.
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