Endo water bottles

[Guest]

What do you do with your endo water bottles. Do you sterilize them or just wash them??

[Nannette Braley]

We peel pack them with the lid and steam them. This is acceptable per the manufacturers instructions.

[Guest]

Acceptable yes, but Im wondering if they "need" to be processed? We used to do the same, but as of late we have just been decontaminating them, (washing them) and placing them in a dust cover and sending them back to the endo room. The case isnt a sterile case, and the valve is a one way valve, so nothing can get into the bottle. So, Im wondering if its OK to do what we are doing or should we be processing them??

[Guest]

We use to just run them through the sterilizer without packaging them but now we just decontaminate them and send them back.

[Uprooted Scrub]

Here, we hand wash the endo bottles then peel pack and steam them. FYI, there are disposable endo bottles out there - if you'd like the source please e-mail me and I'll get it to you.

[Guest]

CS Tech,

How do you decontaminate them?? What method are you using? Hand washing, washer decontaminator??